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Karate lessons3C Lj Capitol chapel7C MONDAY MAY 28, 1984 LOCAL NEWS STATE NEWS DAILY RECORDS MESSENGER-INQUIRER1C Records2C Favorite son Champ carries Olympic flame By Andy Lippman Associated Press 1 va I i REGIONAL ROUNDUP From staff and AP reports Accident kills McLean teen A McLean County teen-ager became Kentucky's third traffic fatality of the Memorial Day weekend Sunday morning. Lisa G. Brown, 18, of Calhoun was killed in an accident at 7:35 a.m., according to Kentucky State Police at Madisoriville. (Obituary, Page2C.) Police said she was eastbound on Kentucky 138 in rural Hopkins County when the car she was driving collided with a westbound car driven by Willie C. Adams 45, of 2772 Flamingo Owensboro.

Ms. Brown was pronounced dead on arrival at the Regional Medical Center in Madisonville. Adams was listed in serious condition at the medical center later in the day. The accident occurred 6.9 miles east of Slaughters. No charges were filed.

On Friday, separate accidents claimed the lives of 14-year-old Danny Rapier of South Elgin, 111., and Lonnie Corley 67, of Route 1, Hawesville. The deaths raised the state's traffic toll to 234 for the year, compared to 268 fatalities through May 27, 1983. Seven people lost their lives during the same 78-hour holiday period in 1983. 9 2 7J 3 Ml LOUISVILLE Muhammad Ali no longer floating like a butterfly but still as beloved in his hometown as when he was heavyweight champ of the world carried the Olympic torch Sunday on the first leg of its journey through Kentucky. The several hundred people who gathered to watch here began chanting Ali's name as the Olympic torch came into view at the Kentucky Center for the Arts where one of Louisville's most famous sons was waiting to receive it.

"If you told me 20 years ago that I'd still be participating in the Olympics, I'd have said that you were crazy," said Ali, who won a gold medal during the 1960 Olympics in Rome as CassiusClay. "They say that time really flies. I know now that it's true." The torch was carried to Lexington Sunday, and was to continue its journey through southeast Kentucky today. The torch will be kept at Pine Mountain State Park tonight. If time flies, Ali didn't as he carried the torch on his one-kilometer trip through the downtown streets.

"If I don't make it, if I fall on my face, I want you to promise that you won't take my picture," Ali told the crowd before he accepted the torch. Ali didn't fall, and he completed his turn with a truckful of photographers snapping photos and urging him on. "You're smiling because you're riding," Ali yelled ahead to the photographers at one point. All along the route, people shouted encour-agement to the 42-year-old Ali, who appeared to grow stiff-legged as he ran. The crowd was urged not to follow, but boys and grown men kept up with Ali, yelling "go get 'em champ looking good." It was fitting that his turn should end at Muhammad Ali Boulevard, renamed in his honor.

"I'm an old man," Ali said of his effort. His work wasn't over by any means though. The next runner had already finished her kilometer and come back and Ali was still standing on the corner of Third and Muhammad Ali signing autographs and hugging little children. One woman slammed on her brakes when she saw Ali and began backing up her car, shouting, "I don't believe it. Look who it is." Although he may no longer float like a butterfly the way he was once described, his wit still carried a sting.

"Hey, champ," one man kept yelling at him. Ali finally looked up and stared at him. "Oh, you said Ali said, "I thought you were saying, 'Hey Ali provided the warmest greetings for the children and the people who he had touched, or had touched him in the past. Those people got I 1 1 tat OS A Associated Press Muhammad Ali carries the Olympic torch through downtown Louisville Sunday. hugs and whispered greetings.

He posed with almost everyone who wanted a picture, and he signed everything from caps to check stubs. "Our own has come home," said Louisville Mayor Harvey Sloane in introducing him. And for those who ran along the sidewalk beside him or waited for his autograph, his performance was a knockout. "This is something you'll be able to tell your children about," said one woman whose child clutched an autograph. "This is really something you'll want to remember." Jack Stivers.

Messenger-Inquire Making his pitch Offices to be closed today All city, county, state and federal offices will be closed today for Memorial Day. Also closed will be banks, a number of stores and the Owensboro-Daviess County Public Library. -v. For most agencies, it will be business as usual on Tuesday. But Owensboro City Hall will close at noon to give city employees half a day to vote in the primary election.

The city schedule returns to normal on Wednesday. But residential garbage pickups in Owensboro will be one day late this week because of the Memorial Day holiday. Bob Rigsby, the city's sanitation superintendent, said his crews will be working their normal holiday Schedule, which means that residents should set out their garbage one day later than their regular pickup day. Sanitation crews will, however, be making most commercial pickups today, especially for establishments such as hospitals and larger restaurants, he said. Steve Bowlds pitches a horseshoe Sunday family gathering in Legion Park in Owensbo House feels effects of election changes erRichardA.Turnerof Tompkinsville.

It also included Democrats who chair five of the House's 15 committees: James E. Bruce, banking and insurance; Jody Richards, education; Herbie Deskins, natural resources and environment; Louis Johnson, judiciary-civil, and Clay Crupper, agriculture and small business. Three other committee chairmen Terry Mann, energy; Gerta Bendl, health and welfare, and Sam Thomas, business organizations and professions drew opposition only for November. Others in that category included Majority Floor Leader Jim LeMas-ter of Paris, Majority Caucus Chairman Bill Donnermeyer of Bellevue, GOP Caucus Chairman Edward L. Holloway of Middletown and Minority Whip Woody Allen of Morgantown.

Four incumbent Democrats Da fights. Mrs. Kenton is facing a vigorous challenge in the 75th District from Ernesto Scorsone, a Lexington lawyer, while Meyer is pitted against Covington City Commissioner Irvin "Butch" Callery. This will be the first time that legislators have been elected in the same year as a General Assembly session. In 1979, voters approved a constitutional amendment to have legislators elected in even-numbered rather than odd-numbered years.

That, the backers of the amendment said, would give newly elected legislators more than a year to prepare for their first session in Frankfort rather than two months. So in 1981, House members were elected for a three-year term rather than a two-year term to accommodate the switch to even-numbered election years. vid Thomason of Henderson, Hank List of Lexington, Lewis Foster of Russellville and Charles Petty of Covington chose not to seek reelection. The Democrats are assured of retaining 32 seats, including those of Thomason and Foster, because no Republican filed to run. Thomason's successor will be Henderson Judge-executive A.G.

Prit-chett, who drew no opposition in the Democratic primary. Of all House panels, the 17-mem-ber Cities Committee could be destined for the greatest change in membership, thanks in part to the departures of Thomason and List, who was its chairman. Of its other members, Ms. Kidd and Handy are considered underdogs in their races, while Carolyn Kenton, D-Lexington, and Joseph U. Meyer, D-Covington, are locked in serious By CharlasWolfa Associated Press FRANKFORT Technically, the entire Kentucky House of Representatives is up for election this year.

As a practical matter, though, nearly half the 100 incumbents will be unaffected by Tuesday's primary and another Democratic majority is virtually assured. But this year's primary is not devoid of interesting races. Because of redistricting, two races in Louisville will pit Democratic incumbents 10-term veteran Mae Street Kidd vs. Tom Riner in the 41st District and Ben Handy vs. Aubrey Williams, influential chairman of the Judiciary-Criminal Committee, in the 42nd.

Appropriations and Revenue Chairman Joe Clarke, D-Danville, is generally favored over former Dan- mm rn'miihiii I niinii iiiamdfc mm ville policeman Jon Kleckner for a 10th term. But Kleckner has made an issue of the Northpoint Training Center, a medium-security prison the state opened near Danville over local objections. When the filing deadline for candidates came and went on the night of March 15, 45 incumbents were unopposed for renomination. Twenty-six others, all but five of whom are Democrats, drew no opposition in November's general election, either. The latter group included House Speaker Bobby H.

Richardson of Glasgow and Republican Floor Lead- Substation blast breaks windows There were no injuries when an insulator at a Louisville Gas Electric Co. substation in the Highlands section of Louisville exploded Saturday night. The 9 p.m. blast smashed windows in some homes and cars, police said. Calvin Anderson, an spokesman, said the cause of the explosion has not been determined although foul play was not suspected.

Some residents of the area said there was a ball of fire when the blast occurred. I Gedling faces Mills in 18th i 1 1 Gedling said he also would like to to go would have been to place a tax on non-essential items," he said. "I proposed a bottle tax. It could have brought in $70 million per year. When you put a tax on income you discriminate against everyone." The state should wait to see what happens when the economy improves before considering other taxes.

Gedling said. Mills said the state should discover where waste has occurred and eliminate it "and then determine if additional revenue in the form of taxes or a lottery is needed. I don't know enough about a lottery, but if additional sources are desired I'd look at it as an alternative." The candidates agree that improving Kentucky 60 between Hawesville and Irvington is a priority. By Ron Hawkins Messenger-Inquirer A political newcomer is trying to unseat a state legislator who has been in office less than six months in the Democratic primary for 18th District state House of Representatives. Don Gedling.

a 44-year-old former Breckinridge County clerk, won a special election in January to fill the seat vacated when Mary Ann Tobin became state auditor. J.H. "Jess" Mills, a 48-year-old Meade County farmer and feed store owner, has challenged Gedling's bid for a full term. The winner is assured of victory in the fall because no Republican has filed to run for the office. Gedling said the state needs more revenue.

"My feeling is the best way see a ban on the purchase of Kentucky farm land for farming purposes by foreign and non-Kentucky interests, a stiffer limit on the importation of foreign tobacco and stiffer laws dealing with the abduction of children. Mills said he would like to see attention focused on rising medical and utility costs, efforts to maintain top teachers and improving state and county prisons. Both candidates say they have a commitment to serving the public. Gedling, a former social worker for the state Department of Human Resources, said, "I've always wanted to be in the state legislature. It's a position where you can do more to help people than any other politi- J.H.

'Ja' Milts Carrollton blast probed An explosion in downtown Carrollton Saturday night was under investigation Sunday by local, state and federal authorities. State police spokesman Jim Mudd said the blast at 8:25 p.m. damaged two connecting South Central Bell telephone booths. Damage was confined to the phone booths and there were no injuries, Mudd said. The type of explosive had not been determined and there were no suspects Sunday.

my best. Any time you pass or enforce legislation, you infringe on the rights of others and you ought to con Don Gadling cal office. I'm very well aware of the needs of the people of the district and have better insight into the ways and means of solving problems." Mills, a former insurance investigator, said, "I'm interested in instilling confidence in government. I've not promised anything except to do sider that seriously." The 18th District includes the northern two-thirds of Hancock County, all of Breckinridge County and most of Meade County..