The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, June 19, 1975

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 VECAS ROTARY CLUB LUNCHEON MEETING 12:15 THURSDAY LANDMARK HOTEL LAS VEGAS, NEVADA Mailing Address-3170 Marsford Place, Las Vegas, Nev. 89102. Phone 876-0277. MAKE-UP DAYS AND PLACES MONDAY — Southwest — Charleston Bowl WEDNESDAY — Boulder City — Multiple Purpose Room TUESDAY — Henderson — Eldorado Club FRIDAY — N o r t h Las Vegas — S i l v e r Nugget WEDNESDAY — Paradise — Showboat JUNE 19, 1975 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 Strange Face On Dais At Rotary There was a strange face at the dais last week. It belonged to Dave Welles, our current treasurer and president-elect for 1976-77. Dave's presence was occasioned by the fact that the other officers who might have presided all are out of town. President Bob, president-elect Don Ashworth and secretary Irwin Kishner were attending the international con-vention in Montreal, and Dave was the only one in authority available. Dave did a good job, but in the matter of fines the membership was impressed by the small amounts as-sessed. He'll learn. - Rl - Jensen Family To Miss Nantucket For the first time in many, many years Jules Jensen and his family will not be leaving Las Vegas this summer. The Jensens usually desert the commu-nity for Nantucket, but because of health problems they will not make the journey this year. However, there are plans for the future. Jules and his Rotary Ann plan to make a trip across the Atlantic this fall and will visit relatives whom they have not seen for some time. Music Will Fill Program Today Today we have an especial treat with a program which will be filled with music. The program will present the 50 voice Wisconsin singing group which is billed by the program committee chairman Joel Rivers, as a "singing group which will thrill your heart and musical muscles." This group of youngsters is touring the country and Las Vegas was very fortunate to be able to get them to stop over here for the Rotary meeting. Their appearance will be one half of the double-barreled program. The other half will be a report on the American Field Service student pro-gram and one of the students enjoy-ing this service will be on deck to give the Rotarians a look into what it is designed to do. Today was supposed to be a Father and Son event, but because of the ab-sence of President Bob and the other officers due to the international con-vention, the program was postponed to a later date. It is not likely, how-ever, that Bob will be able to preside over such a presentation, because he steps down at the next meeting. - Rl - Frank Sala Is Still in Business Frank Sala has denied published re-ports that he is retiring from the real estate business. One of the local newspapers said that Frank's partner, Chuck Ruthe, had bought him out, but Frank said this was erroneous. The two men did decide to dissolve their partnership of many years, and Frank moved down the street one door and still is maintaining his office there. He said that he is desirous of get-ting out from under a lot of the bur-dens the partnership placed upon him and that under the new set up his time will be his own and he can do what he wants to do. 100% Attendance List Is Released The Las Vegas Rotary Club has 24 members whose combined perfect at-tendance record stands at two and a half centuries. That means the record is even greater than the entire history of the United States of America. Leading the list of perfect attendees is Leonard Fayle, who has never missed a Rotary meeting in 33 years. While this is not an international record, there are few members of any club who can boast of such a mark. Leon-ard not only has perfect attendance almost since he started in Rotary, but he has a lot stored up because he at-tends a Rotary meeting almost every days of every week. Following Leonard in the longevity list is Doc Sylvester, who has a perfect record over 27 years. Then, Scoop Gar-side with 26 and Walt Hunsaker with 25 round out the quarter century or better list. At 17 are Jack Cord and Tex Black-man, and at 15 is Frank Mikulich. Mink Dixon has 13 years of having never missed a meeting, while Roby Robichaud is at 12. Jules Jensen follows with 10, then comes Walt Wehner with nine and George Abernathy at eight. At seven is Early Harris, and at five are Max Kelch and John F. Cahlan. There are three at four: Doyle Jor-dan, Angelo Manzi and Doc Tobin; while at two are Dan Kashdan, Dave Causey and Dean Cummings. Just breaking into the list, with one year each, are Dean Cummings, Jack Kling and Fred Lewis. George Abernathy, the attendance chairman, says that if there are any other members who believe they should be recognized on the perfect attendance list, they should contact him and he will re-check the records to see that everyone meriting it can be recognized. George also apologized for being late with the list, but illness and a stint in the hospital delayed his com-pilation. Birthday Table Has Small Attendance Last week was the birthday week for June and while 19 members cele-brate their natal date this month, there were only two of them seated at the birthday table. The others who were at the table were interlopers and were there because they were unable to stand the loneliness of those who were honored. Those whose birthdays fall in June include: Swede Ahlswede, Jack Beggs, Vaughan Cannon, Ed Fountain, Irwin Kishner, Jack Kling, Wayne Kirch, Ken O'Connell and Jim Pico. Also Lorin Ronnow, Phil Young-blood, Dave Welles, Tobe Tobin, Lee Rose, Don Kerr, Vic Isaacson, Bob Hecht, Howard Nelson and Frank Mik-ulich Jr. - Rl - Yoxens Have News Both Good, Bad There was good news and bad at the John Yoxen home recently. The good news was that John Sr. and his construction f i rm won a judg-ment against Howard Hughes. The bad news was that John Jr. had an alter-cation with a tree and landed in the hospital. John Jr. was returning home when he missed a corner on Bannie's Lane, jumped the divider and wound up astride the tree. He suffered a dislo-cated hip and other major injuries, but is expected to recover nicely. He is ex-pected to be in the hospital for a week or two and then will return home for his recuperative period. - Rl - Moores Are Back R. Julian Moore and his Rotary Ann, Fran, are back in Las Vegas following a trip to the southeast section of the United States. Julian still has a lot of what he calls "shirttail relatives" down in Florida and the couple visited them and other sections of the area during the two weeks they were gone. Demotion Party Is All Lined Out Dark plots were mapped out last Thursday evening when Keith Ash-worth, chairman of the demotion party for Bob O'Connell gathered his ghouls and drafted the program which, on next Thursday evening, will send our venerable prexy into the limbo which is occupied exclusively by the car-casses of the past presidents. The clan gathered at Ashworth's house and after a f ew rounds of the juices of which dreams are made, they sat down to conjure up the pro-gram which will deal Bob out of the kingly throne upon which he has sat for the past year. Afterwards a deli-cious barbecue was served to the com-mittee members and their wives. The only decision reached, which can be released for publication, was that the affair will be held at the Crockett Ranch on the night of June 26 and all members of the Las Vegas Rotary Club are expected to be pres-ent. Guests will be welcome, but there will be a slight charge for the admis-sion — like $25 per each — which is expected to be covered by the mem-bers hosting them. With the kind of people who are members of the committee, it can be said without fear of contradiction that Rapid Robert will have a very un-pleasant journey down the primrose path which leads into the vast waste-lands of fallen past presidential tim-ber. The trapshooters, as usual, will start gathering at 5:30 for their fun and games, while the main body of the affair is expected for cocktails at 6. Dinner will be served somewhere around 8. A Quotation From 'The World of Rotary' One feature that seems to me of the highest importance in the work-ings of Rotary is the autonomy, the selfhood, the integrity of the individ-ual club . . . the real unit remains the club, whether it be in Barstow or Bang-kok. — Charles W. Ferguson. Jan's 2 Youngsters Are Graduated Jan West, our charming secretary-elect, has had a lot of commotion around her house the last couple of weeks. Her youngsters are growing up and, as a result their education is piling up on them. Jan's daughter, Cindy, was grad-uated from Clark High School with the class of 1975. She has not yet decided what her course will be this fall — whether she will go on to college or seek employment. Son Randy knows what he is going to do. He was graduated from the tenth grade and will be going to Clark High in September. - Rl - Manzi Takes Off For Annual Meet Angelo Manzi is off on another one of his numerous trips of honor award-ed by his life insurance company, New York Life. This time he has gone to San Fran-cisco with his Rotary Ann, Fran, and they will be gone the rest of this week. While in the city by the bay, An-gelo will attend the annual session of the New York Life's Million Dollar Round Table, of which he is a mem-ber. Nobody is able to keep track of the honors Angelo has won with the com-pany, but he manages pretty well to see a great deal of territory during any given year. - Rl - John Beville Is At UCLA Clinic John Beville, co-editor of the Wheel, was in Los Angeles last week for med-ical advice as to his allergies. John has been bothered for the past several years with these allergies and there hasn't been much relief, despite continuing visits to doctors' offices and clinics. He plans to enter UCLA Medical Center next week for a series of tests.