The Wheel of Rotary Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, July 21, 1949

O f f K M t P U B t i a n O N O f M i ^ f G A ^ ^ f ^ M ^ O M ^ y ( M M PLACE STAMP HERE [NTERNAHONAL OFFtCERS President—Percy Hodgson Eck Hiestand, Governor District No. 160 3636 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, 5, Calif. LAS VEGAS ROTARY CLUB Club No. 1401 Chartered April 5, 1923 Membership July '49—94 OFFtCERS President—Leonard Fayle Secretary—Allye Lawson Treasurer—Harry Allen Directors John BeviHe Carl Hyde Paul McDermott Jim Shaver John BeviHe Rotary "Whee!" Staff "Pop" Squires, Editor Jim Shaver, Bob Gatewood, Reporters MAKEUP Boulder City, Nevada Wednesday, 12:15 PT Caliente, Nevada Friday, 12:15 Ml Tonopah, Nevada Tuesday, 12:15 PT St. George, Utah Monday, 12:15 MT Kingman, Arizona Wednesday, 12:15 PT Barstow, California Wednesday, 6:30 PT Needles, California Tuesday, 12:15 PT FACTS ABOUT OUR TOWN Elevation, 2,038. Founded 1905. Population, 25,000, of trading area 45,000. Situated on U. S. Highways 91 and 95. Serviced by- Union Pacific R.R. Greyhound, Burlington and Las Vegas-Tonopah & Reno Stage Lines, also Sun Valley (Phoenix) Bus Line. And Bonanza, United, Trans World Airlines and Western Air Lines. Hub of West's Most Scenic Country, Grand Canyon, Bryce and Zion Parks, Death Valley, Boulder Dam and Lake Mead, Mt. Charleston, Valley of Fire. Page 2 WHEEL OF ROTARY JULY 31, 1949 TODAY'S PROGRAM Today, Fast-President Lorin and President Leonard will report on the Convention of Rotary International which both attended in New York last month Leonard will also report on a few of the things he "lamed" at the District Assembly last week. * * * * * * * * * * * LEE EDHARDS and JACK CHERRY, JR. These boys were sponsored by Las Vegas Rotary Club at 'Boys' State' last month. They will tell us about how it is done. * * * * * * * * * * * NEXT WEEK Our old friend, Tommy Wilson, of Reno, head of the Wilson Advertising Agency, who dug up and presented that scries of interesting historical sketches on Nevada for Harold's Club, will be our guest speaker next week. He vnll tell us how it was done—we ho-oej * * * * * * * * * * * * LAST 'KEEK For our program speaker last week, Ed Converse introduced Alden Hatch, who, with his brother Eric Hatch, make a fraternity writing team inidely knomu The speaker gave a most interesting talk about the life and activities of a great soldier—the late General Geo, Patton. * * * "Buck" Newsom, of Radio KENO, gave a resume of late news in place of Max Kelch, who was absent. Jim Shaver presided over the meet-ing in place of President Leonard Fayle who, with Secretary Allye Lawson, was attending the district officers con-ference at The Ambassador, Los Angeles. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ON THE WING Ed Converse is spending considerable of his time flying down to Phoenix and back, and up to Reno and back, making preparations to begin service on the new service of Bonanza Airlines between Phoenix and Reno, with Las Vegas as the central point The planes will serve Phoenix, Prescott and Kingman, Arizona, Las Vegas, Tonopah, Hawthorne, Minden, Carson City and Reno, with two flights per day each way To provide for the additional service, Bonanza has purchas-ed two fine ships to add to the present fleet and is starting work on a large hangar at McCarran Field, in which the planes will be housed and all necessary servicing and repair work done to keep them in perfect condition. P.S. Since the above was written, Ed has extended the scope of his commut-ing. He is now in New York but expects to be with us next week. * * * * * * * * * * * * * INTERESTING LETTER Jim Shaver recently took pity on two visitors to Vegas who were unable to find hotel accommodations, and took them into his home. They were from Belgium, and after their departure, wrote Jim a letter of appreciation, in part as fol-lows; "We thank you very much again for your very kind hospitality. We had a nice time in visiting the .hotels at night. We had a l o t o f .<335 WHEEL OF fun observing the dice gamblers. We were astonished, to sec how much money people are spending in gambling. In Belgium we also have two or three gam-bling houses—nhat we call them, 'Cas-inos', but it don't seem to mc the gam-blers over there are so excited." *** Very truly yours in Rotary J. H. WILLEMS MAURICE WILLEMS Conveyor of the International Relations, Rotary Club of Charleroi, Belgium." * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * BUSY ROTARIANSJ Rotarians have been busy fellows re-cently J For example, there is Hardy Felix Allen who has moved his business into the store recently vacated by Sierra Appliance Company, 404 Fremont, and has a really classy men's clothing and tail-oring shop. Woody Pierce, who has taken over the management of the wholesale department of Sierra Appliance Co. Harry Miller, who is assisting the Clark County Sheriff's Office for a time (We have an inquiry What did Harry do with all the liquor he took on M s last raid on Bonanza Road? Leonard ad-vises Harry: Be careful of the West side'.) Then there were Ken Tinsley, Ed Ciliax, Max Kelch and Weary Wilson, ganged up on the grocery business of Henderson and Las Vegas. <&nd by no means the least—Ed Converse and his fast growing Bonanza AirlinesJ cP EOTARY Page 3 JOHN SEVILLE— Spent last week with Rotary Ann Helen and son Bobby at Laguna Beach. Oops! He also skunked Virginia, Allye and Leonard on that fishin' trip with Glendale Rotary sportsmen, *****^* MAXWELL & LAURABELLE Are staying aboard) their cruiser KENO at Newport B e a c h . . . . . Tli^-I fishing score to date Guests: No fish^ Max: -ditto-^_^ LAURABELLE: (Yep, y o u ^ guessed i t )— 3 big ALBACCRE * * * * * * * * * * * * NEW "WHEEL" FORMAT! Secretary Allye has prepared a new format for this publication, on which this issue of "The Wheel is mimeographed by Lillian L a n e . . . . We hope it will please all those who receive the Club publication.... By the way, you will observe that Jim Shaver and Doc Bob Gatewocd are again the reporters (with President Leonard and Secretary Allye), John Beville and "Pop" Squires, the Edi-t o r . . . . The six continue their Wed-nesday noon meetings as in the past, so if you have a juicy item (fit for "The Wheel") get it to one of those fellows before Wednesday noon. * * * * * * * * * * * * * "BUZZ" JOHNSON & "EARLY* HARRIS These two worthy Educators are being educated in Reno—But they are commuting from Lake Tahoe Smart, huh? VISITING ROTARIANS TOM LOYELL San Bernardino, DAN CORDOVA. GEORGE RELF HERB FOSTER CR0R3Y McBETH E. Ci SCHMIDT GLE1-W MYERS JIM...COSTELLO OR Y^^LE SWEET Cal. Boulder City- Santa Barbara, Cal. Palm Springs, Cal. Yuma, Colorado Omaha, Nebraska Reno, Nevada Los Angeles Wilmington, Cal. Thanks, fellows! We were pleased to'have your pictures taken and sent* each of you. a copy as a souvenir. So came again soonj * * * & * * * * * * * * * FRIENDLY -&TMOSTHERE ' In a recent address at a meet-ing of the Rotary Club of Calcutta, India, Mr. Loy W. Henderson, Ambas-sador of the U.S.A. to India, said: "The atmosphere of Rotary clubs .throughout the world is so uniformly friendly and stimulating that, no patter .how remote from my otm coun-try I may be, I can never regard myself as among strangers when I am a- guest at a Rotary meeting." ****** TEE'. STRUCTURE OF ROTARY A man setting out to build a satisfactory house does not take anything for granted, nor does he put his material together in a hit or miss fashion. He works out his plan in detail, draws it to scale, sets about selecting materials of quality and hires good craftsmen. In other words, he prepared to be successful in his undertaking. So we find in Rotary. It is not a hit or miss proposi-tion, but a carefully planned structure. It is built for human lives end great charac-ters, built of noble and in-spiring thoughts, built for service, for enlightenment of civilization. Every Rotarian is a part of the material, carefully selected. So, may each "brick" do its duty in making Rotary a great struc-ture, worthy of its name. — MontlJ.y Letter of Governor Edtvard D. Talker Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.A. 4 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "Obstacles are those frightful things you. see when you take your eye off the goal." —Hannah More