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7 Regional news Deaths 'Kentucky Show! impressive in its look at state's heritage The Courier-Journal, Friday morning, October 19, 1984 MEMO Fred Brink, the show's director and designer, said it offers viewers a chance to be invited into more than 100 households to listen to native Kentuckians talk about themselves. "It is a first- and second-person tour of the state," he said. A week ago the Kentucky theater's interior was far from finished and cobblestones were still being laid on Theater Square in front of the building. Yesterday the interior was immaculate. Several dozen tables were wedged into the small lobby.

They were topped by blue tablecloths, decorated with candles and blue-and-white china and ringed by white chairs. After the show, guests were treated to a lunch featuring beans and barbecued chops. The lobby was gaily decorated with 10 huge murals donated by the 3M Corp. They are computer-made pictures that duplicate photographs used in the show. Outside, the cobblestones were all in place and a corridor was roped off to separate the entryway to the Kentucky from the rest of See STATE PAGE 3, col.

1, this section By SHELDON SHAFER Courier-Journal Staff Wrlttr About 150 reporters, contributors and special friends got the first peek yesterday at the $1.2 million "sight and sound extravan-ganza" known as "KentuckyShow!" The 52-minute, multimedia production in the renovated Kentucky theater on Fourth Avenue, just north of Broadway, features a once-over-Iightly look at Kentucky. A few hundred archival photos are interspersed with thousands of shots from around the state. Viewers at the special showing were unrestrained in their enthusiasm. "Magnificent," said Denny Cram, the University of Louisville's basketball coach. "It made me proud to be a Kentuckian." "It's great," said Mary Oppel, assistant manager of the Broadway Renaissance, of which "Kentucky-Show!" is a part.

"It will bring a lot of people to the area. Simply having lights on again on Fourth Avenue will be a tremendous draw." The show features more than 3,000 slides, 40 projectors and sound from five directions. There Related story, Page I. is no narration, only the voices of native Kentuckians telling their stories. It's impossible to catch all of the show in one viewing.

An attempt to pick out detail in one picture might result in your missing four or five other images projected simultaneously on the screen. And the sound track at times almost hurts such as when the Belle of Louisville blows its whistle. Yesterday's audience apparently considered those inconveniences minor. It responded with warm applause at the end and gave a special ovation to Sharon Potter, the show's executive producer and originator. Before the lights went down, Ms.

Potter said: "We have transformed an old, useless theater into what we hope will be the biggest, year-round, ongoing attraction in Louisville. It will be a tremendous educational resource and an exciting tool for economic development." it i isl't" SiYili WW--', 1 1 11, I i.i. staff Photo by Tammy Ltchntr lan of Harlan, who appeared in the show. She and her sister, Datter. center, came to Louisville to see the production.

After yesterday's "KentuckyShow!" performance, Rhody Steeter. one of the interviewers for the production, talked with Charlotte No- Jury seated in retrial of 1979 murder case jiiinnriialiiiiiiitiT fytC 'SWiqVJMuIiUiIl 1 7 4 -iff iij i V'ili Many speak against plan for zoning in Portland By MARY ANN FRENCH Couritr-Journal Staff Writtr There's a zoning plan on the boards to change "non-conforming" use of land in the northern part of Portland to a more "appropriate" pattern. the majority of residents from that neighborhood who turned out for a Louisville and Jefferson County Planning Commission hearing at City Hall last night said they like things pretty much the way they are, thank you. After hearing testimony from more than 25 Portland residents and owners of area businesses, the commission deferred action on the plan, and said it would consider the concerns that many expressed about individual lots that would be affected by the zoning changes. "As far as our zoning is concerned, we would really appreciate it if you all would just leave us alone and leave our zoning alone," said Nancy Beeles of 2134 Portland Ave.

"We like Portland the way it is, and if we didn't, we'd move. "Don't ever underestimate Portland. We might not look like anything. We might not get written up in the paper. But we got the money.

We can buy anywhere anybody else can." The purpose of the rezoning plan is to revitalize the neighborhood by encouraging commercial growth and protecting a residential climate in See MANY PAGE 3, col. 1, this section Beg your pardon Because of an editing error, a story in yesterday's Courier-Journal said Cynthia Amend, who had lived in a Bullitt County foster home was killed by lightning. She was electrocuted. Because of incorrect information received, the obituary of Mrs. El-frada Standard Walker in yesterday's Courier-Journal said she died at Humana Hospital University.

She actually died at Jewish Hospital. show that Moore was set up by a friend who actually killed Harris, then implicated Moore to avoid going to prison for other crimes. And Radigan said he will show that police, anxious to make an arrest in the case, "lost their sense of objectivity." "When Virgil Harris was found dead it was like one of their own was killed," Radigan said of police. "They took the first bite that they found and never looked back." Fourteen jurors will hear testimony from about 30 witnesses during the trial. If Moore is found guilty of intentional murder, a separate sentencing hearing will be conducted, according to Judge Edmund "Pete" Karem, who is presiding.

During opening statements to jurors yesterday, attorneys for both sides said the case against Moore is largely circumstantial. There were no witnesses to the crime, although Moore's fingerprints were found on Harris car and on money Harris had See SECOND PAGE 5, col. 1, this section panel gives $216,000 cording to its most recent report to the Federal Election Commission. McConnell's campaign had a cash balance of just over $116,000, with $22,000 in campaign bills. His campaign said it spent about half of the money pledged to it by the Republican Senatorial Committee.

Under federal election laws, national campaign committees can pledge as much as $216,000 to a Senate candidate. The candidate's campaign draws against the sum by having the committee pay for campaign expenses. Huddleston indicated that his campaign probably would not spend the entire amount. Huddleston said he had taken part in three campaign fund-raising tours in California, Texas and Georgia on behalf of the committee and that its chairman, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, had told him that his cam-See DEMOCRATS PAGE 4, col.

3, this section By JUDY BRYANT Courier-Journal Staff Writer Did Brian Keith Moore murder 77-year-old Virgil Harris in 1979? Or was Moore the victim of an intense police investigation fueled by information from a convicted thief who was scheming to avoid his own imprisonment? Moore, who is accused of kidnapping, robbing and shooting the father of Jefferson County police officer Jerry Harris, had been sentenced to die for the crime. But Jefferson Circuit Court jurors will begin hearing testimony today in a new trial that Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Larry Simon said will require the deductive reasoning of Sherlock Holmes. The Kentucky Supreme Court in 1982 overturned Moore's conviction, citing errors by the trial judge and prosecutors. A new trial was ordered and prosecutors are again seeking the death penalty. Defense attorney William Radigan said yesterday that the evidence will Democratic Huddleston By BOB JOHNSON Courlor-Journal Political Writer MADISONVILLE, Ky.

U.S. Sen. Walter "Dee" Huddleston's campaign has received a contribution of $216,000 from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. That matches the figure Huddleston's opponent, Jefferson County Judge Mitch McConnell, received from the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee after winning the GOP nomination earlier this year. In confirming that his campaign had received the contribution, Huddleston said the money would probably be used for radio and television ads and possibly to set up a telephone bank before the Nov.

6 election. He was interviewed last night before a Democratic Party rally at the Hopkins County Courthouse in Madi-sonville. Huddleston's campaign had nearly $355,000 on hand as of Sept. 30, ac Stall Photo by Paul Schuhmann fat zone Sneakering through the Dave Peterson of Louisville Jogged past a "Fat Zone No Jogging" sign yesterday in the 300 block of West Riverside Drive in Jeffer-sonville, Ind. John Frey said he put the sign in front of his house to joke with the "Bridge Club." members of Louisville's YMCA who jog across the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge and back during their lunch hour.

Cat, owner are reunited after five years IIIUIIMHIUIIII JIIWLIJU 'WIWUll1 11H 1 mil There was, and she had. "I was sobbing and the tears were streaming down. I said, 'Oh Kitty, I've never stopped loving "The minute I found him, I got on the phone and called my youngest son in California, then I called Stacey (who now is the stable manager for singer Dan Fogelberg in Colorado), and she was beside herself." Through records at the animal shelter, Mrs. Booth later learned that, when Kitty disappeared five years ago, he had shown up hungry at a home on Belknap Beach in the Prospect area, where he had been renamed "Wiggins," and where he was well cared for, until his adoptive owners decided they could no longer keep him. Now he is Kitty again, back home with the Booths, teasing the two Oriental cats that were his playmates five years ago.

and I would dream about him," Mrs. Booth recalled. Last January she became a volunteer at the Humane Association of Greater Louisville on Lexington Road, where she helps care for unwanted animals. "Everytime I'd see a tabby cat, I'd think of Kitty and my heart would sink," she said. One Saturday morning, several weeks ago, she was talking with one of her fellow workers at the shelter when a tabby cat that someone had brought in jumped onto her lap.

"I said, 'Oh, I used to have a cat like this, only mine had a little and I turned his head around and there was the freckle. It was so emotional for me. I started crying and shaking. "I said, 'Leslie, if I open this cat's mouth and there's a little arrowhead-shaped mark in the roof of his mouth, I've found my Kitty." His owners call it a miracle, but Kitty, the 10-year-old tabby cat who disappeared five years ago, is just glad to be home. Kitty's strange saga began when Bill and Maggie Booth moved from suburban Chicago to Louisville in 1979.

Maggie, fearing that Kitty might be killed on the road near their home, took him to live with her daughter, Stacey, a veterinary technician, who then was living on a farm off Rose Island Road in eastern Jefferson County. Not long afterward, Kitty disappeared. "Well, it broke my heart, and my daughter felt guilty," Mrs. Booth recalled. "She covered all the vets in Goshen and Prospect, and she put up pictures of him in -the vets' offices and at Winn Dixie." A But there was no word on the missing cat.

the five years that followed, Byron Crawford rniiripr.Iniimnl d-l coiummsi Maggie tried to forget the lost pet she had nursed back to health when her son found him, a sick kitten, on the sidewalk near their home when they lived in suburban Santa Ana, Calif. But her grief would not, subside. She cried when she looked at color slides of Kitty draped across the back of her husband's easy chair, sleeping with one paw across his' face, one of the cat's quirks. "I couldn't get my mind off of him. We'd always talk about him.

0 Staff Photo by Byron Crawford After a five-year absence, Kitty, a 10-year-old tabby, is back with Bill and Maggie Booth. The cat turned up at the Humane Association of Greater Louisville, where Mrs. Booth works. "Time has stood still for him," going to see me to the grave, or Mrs. Booth said.

"He hasn't I'm going to see him to the grave, changed a bit. whichever comes first." "Now that I have him back, he's im, tho caurior-journai.