The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, September 19, 1974

The Wheel ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN LAS VEGAS LANDMARKS is this impressive high-rise structure — the Landmark Hotel — selected as the permanent home for Rotary Club, oldest service club in the city. LAS VEGAS ROTARY CLUB LUNCHEON MEETING 12:15 THURSDAY LANDMARK HOTEL LAS VEGAS, NEVADA Mailing Address - P. O. Box 2406, Las Vegas, Nevada 89104 MAKE-UP DAYS AND PLACES MONDAY — Southwest — Charleston Bowl WEDNESDAY — Boulder City — Multiple Purpose Room TUESDAY —Henderson —Eldorado Club FRIDAY—North Las Vegas — S i l v e r Nugget SEPTEMBER 19, 1974 i W W W W W W W W W W W The Wheel "He Profits Most Who Serves Best" PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE ROTARY CLUB OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA RAY GERMAIN, JOHN BEVILLE and JOHN F. CAHLAN Co-Editors SHERWIN GARSIDE Publisher ^vvvvvvvvvvwvvwwwwvwwwwvvw* Don Shuster Today's Speaker Our speaker for today is Don Shuster, a member of the Sandia Labo-ratories' scientific team. He will speak on "New Energy Research Develop-ments." Don is well qualified to speak on the subject because he is director of advanced planning and analysis for Sandia. He joined the organization in 1946 and has steadily advanced in the company since that time. He has served as deputy to the scientific deputy of joint task force eight which conducted the high alti-tude tests at Johnston Island in 1962. He also served as director of aero-space programs, special projects, direc-tor of exploratory systems and direc-tor of exploratory projects and as-suming his present position on Sep-tember 1, 1973. He was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is married and has four chil-dren. — Rl — Walt Wehner Given Honor With the preliminary steps for a new club already being taken, the board of directors at their last meet-ing voted to name Walt Wehner as the liaison man between the Las Vegas club and the district governor. It will be Walt's job to see that the governor is kept informed of all steps and, when the new club is formed it is probable that Walt will become the "daddy" of the infant. August Birthdays Observed Although it was a month late, a goodly throng celebrated their August birthdays last week. The patrons at the birthday table was a bit sparse because of absenteeism but there are 15 members who were born in the last month of the summer vacation. Those who became a year older last month included: Harry Allen, Dave Boyer, John F. Cahlan, Wing Fong, Verle Lee, Joe McNamee, John Rey-born, Carl Ross, Ken Sparks, Otto Underhill, Ted Wiens, Dick Etter, Dean Cummings, Dr. Bill Busch and Tom Isola. President Bob is determined to get caught up with the birthday observ-ances so the September birthday tables have been set out in all their glory today. Happy birthday! Gang. - Rl - Know Your Rotarians HERMAN SALTZMAN Herman was born in Chicago, Il-linois, December 2, 1926. He and Rotary Ann Jerilyn are the parents of a sixteen year old high school junior, Randal. He holds the very important classification of Charitable Institutions (United Way). He has been a member of the community for over two years, when time permits he plays golf. Favorite spectator sports are Baseball, Football and Golf. In 1972 Herman was honored by "Community Leaders of America" in their publication. In college at Northern Illinois University at Dekalb, Illinois he majored in Edu-cation and was active in baseball. - Rl - Past R.I. President Carl Miller Honored Carl P. Miller, Past President of Rotary International, and well known to older club members when he served as District Governor and headed a Las Vegas District Confer-ence, was recently honored by the Grand Lodge of Free And Accepted Masons of California by the presenta-tion of a f i f ty year pin in Honolulu. Delinquencies To Be Dealt With After much agonizing over the past several years, the Las Vegas Rotary Club board of directors decided the time was ripe this year to begin a hard line attitude with those who be-come delinquent in their attendance and well as paying their dues. It was unanimously voted to adopt the provisions of the International con-stitution regarding delinquencies in dues into the local club's bylaws which means that, if a member be-comes delinquent more than 30 days, action will be taken against him. It also was unanimously voted that before such a case develops, both in dues and attendance, the member will be given notice of his delinquency and, if the notice is not observed, his sponsor will be notified. If that doesn't do any good the member will be dropped from the rolls. The board agreed that there were just a handful of members who were causing the attendance delinquencies. At the present time there are 12 mem-bers on the delinquency rolls and their lack of attendance ranges from a low of 11 meetings to a high of 16. Sev-eral of these are consecutive absences which is, under the bylaws, subject to dismissal. "This is a major change in the opera-tion of the local club," President Bob reported," but it has become necessary because there are several members who are taking advantage of our in-action. In fact there is one member whose dues ont only are delinquent, but he also has been bringing guests to the meetings and putting the charge on the already delinquent ac-count. This we cannot tolerate." Action already has been voted against some of those delinquent and, if others do not come through will face the same thing, President Bob said. - Rl - The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. JOHN BURROUGHS AS THE WHEEL TURNS Every effort will be expended this years to see that the Las Vegas club has a large delegation to both the district conference. SCOTTY WALLACE has been named as the chairman of the committee to plush for delegates to the Montreal convention in 1975 and MIKE MEYERS will head the group to service the district confab . . . It was decided to select the name for the new ROTARY CLUB in this area of Las Vegas East. If the membership, after it is formed, wish to change it they may . . . The DON ASHWORTHS celebrated their fourteenth anniversary on September 8 . . . The visitation of the district governor will be the signal for a ladies' day for the local club . . . GOVERNOR BARNEY will have his wife with him and she would like to meet as many of the Las Vegas Rotary Anns as possible . . . That visit, by the way, is October 17, so put it on your calendar and be nice to your w i f e . . . The crucial baseball series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Cincinnati was viewed by a goodly group of southern Nevadans. JOE LEVEQUE, DR. STAN HARDY and OTTO UNDERHILL joined the Las Vegas Southwest club in making the trip to LA over the past weekend . . . GAR-WOOD VAN, our musical maestro, finally got his machine music in sync with the Rotarians voices last week and an enjoyable patriotic ballad was ground out in an excellent manner to start the meeting . . . Former Gov-ernor Paul Laxalt was a visitor to the club last week and was properly rec-ognized. We just don't get too many ex-governors in our midst. In fact, there aren't many left . . . The visiting ROTARIANS last week included one from Sydney, Australia, and another from Bermuda. That's a fur piece away. - Rl - Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience. WILLIAM FEATHER STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURES ADMINISTRATIVE FUND ROTARY CLUB OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA FOR A PERIOD OF 1 MONTH AND 10 MONTHS ENDING JULY 31, 1974 INCOME: 1 Month 10 Months Club Dues - $ 9,365.00 $66,518.08 Scooter Fines 38.00 509.00 LVRC FINES - 1,038.65 7,262.60 Roster - - 20.00 185.00 Admission Fees 1,550.00 Interest 209.36 Sundry 51.00 Luncheon Fees 429.00 6,111.05 Reimbursements - 1,651.21 8,007.65 TOTAL CASH RECEIVED - $12,591.86 $90,403.74 PLUS CASH IN BANK AT BEGINNING 4,964.51 6,115.18 TOTAL CASH TO BE ACCOUNTED FOR $17,556.37 $96,518.92 EXPENDITURES: Dues to International $ 1,046.75 $ 3,100.68 Dues to District 759.50 1,918.25 Program 161.71 820.50 Club Bulletin - 32.63 2,569.72 Contributions 768.64 Postage and Club Supplies 218.34 5,303.41 Delegates to Conventions 4,003.03 Community Service 564.33 Demotion 326.81 6,149.39 Christmas Party 4,690.89 Salaries 275.51 3,844.15 Payroll Taxes 1,155.81 Luncheons 1,836.55 33,324.89 Special Events 963.43 8,221.89 Miscellaneous 12.94 466.68 LVRC Fines to Foundation 5,463.55 LVRC Foundation Donations 77.40 2,308.31 TOTAL CASH EXPENDITURES ....-$ 5,711.57 $84,674.12 CASH IN BANK (ADMINISTRATIVE FUND) .....$11,844.80 $11,844.80 TCD $4,000.00 SAVINGS FNB $4,802.44 SAVINGS B OF N $3,622.23 FOUNDATION $5,152.84 Members are reminded that dues become delinquent 30 days after due date. Finance Plans Discussed The board of directors moved to see that consideration will be given to those members who are named to dis-trict positions in Rotary are provided with some remuneration for their ex-penses. The board voted to appear before the district conference next spring and request that some method be found to get a budget item into the district account in order that a fund will be set up for expenses of these district representatives. It was felt by the board that it was a district expense rather than a local club one and some way should be found to pay it.