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TELEVISION, RADIO, SPORTS, COMICS, AND LOCAL NEWS Ex-Champ Challenges Students Archie Moore Takes Jab at Fighting WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1967 SECTION 16 PAGES Iff -m -I for his ABC (Any Boy Can) Club in Vallejo and San Diego, Calif. Suddenly, the teen-agers were no longer on vacation. They were telling Instructor Moore as he asked to be called what a good teen-ager should do, and what they wanted to do with their lives. Then he taught the boys how to fight. The ageless champ held up his hand, and challenged each boy individually: "Hit my hand.

Hit it harder than that. Break it." "I'm not interested in professional boxing," he said after the session. "If you know how to fight, you walk away from is concerned. When he heard that 35 of the Upward Bound students were having a party, he showed up. The event was at the home of Whitney Young 749 S.

43rd St. He is the retired president of the Lincoln Institute. Moore, who has put on 30 pounds since his last fight in 1962 with Cassius Clay, attracted the teen-agers attention and with disarming reticence said: "I don't know whether you know me or not. But some people call me Archie Moore." He put the students through aptitude tests which he uses to select leaders By CHRISTINE EADE Couritr-Journal Still Writir Even Upward Bound students take a holiday on the Fourth of July. They were playing pool and card games yesterday when Archie Moore, former world light-heavyweight boxing champion, arrived in Louisville unannounced, and challenged them to become leaders.

Moore came to address 115 high school students from poor areas who are now attending special classes to give them a chance to get to college. His talk is slated today but Moore doesn't work on schedules where youth trouble. The fighting is beneath your dignity." Then Archie Moore recalled his own childhood. He was born in Jackson, the son of a tenant farmer. He dropped out of high school at the 10th grade.

"I was 20 when I had my first fight," he said. "But if I was 20 today, I wouldn't be a prize fighter. I would be helping young people to put their best foot forward. "I took up fighting because it was an outlet for my pent-up emotions. I could see doors closing on me from all sides.

The only escape route was prize fighting." Backs Clay's Legal Fight Although his last fight ended in defeat by Clay, Moore supports Clay in his legal battle to avoid the draft. Clay's heavyweight title was vacated after he refused induction, for which he has since been sentenced to five years in prison. An appeal is pending. "I don't think it was fair that Clay should lose his title," Moore said. "Titles should be won and lost in the ring." Moore was converted and baptized last year as a Seventh-Day Adventist.

The Adventists are conscientious objectors. "I don't know what I would have done in Clay's place," Moore said. "But I would have let my religion dominate. A Stiff Phots ARCHIE MOORE, former world light-heavyweight champion, enjoys a joke while attending a party in Louisville yesterday. He will address Upward Bound students at a meeting today.

He is also recruiting leaders for the ABC Clubs which he hopes to start across the country. "Ninety per cent of them were potential leadership material," he said after yesterday's impromptu recruiting session. "This is higher than I have found man is a fool to believe in fighting. Fighting isn't the way. The law of God comes first." Moore is in Louisville with a two-fold purpose.

His session with the Upward Bound students at the University of Louisville is sponsored by the Office of Economic Opportunity. II fs' ix. I ymtimmSMm A Holiday Road Toll Hits 16 As Jams Ease Stall Photo Traffic Jam on the River From AP and Special Dispatches Fourth of July holiday traffic has claimed seven more lives in Kentucky, raising the total for the weekend to 16. They were the results of a two-car collision at Henderson, a one-car crash near Mayfield, a hit-and-run case in Menifee County, a head-on collision in Madison County and a pedestrian accident in Carter County. State police at Morehead said Walter Ringo, 61, Frenchburg, was the victim of a hit-and-run driver about 8:30 Monday night on KY 36 near Frenchburg.

Two Henderson residents, George M. Moss, 21, and James Michael Hennessy, 21, died early yesterday morning when the car in which they were riding collided with an auto driven by Otis Gilbert of Henderson County. Five others in Gilbert's auto were not seriously injured. A one-car accident on KY 45 near Mayfield yesterday morning killed Gene Edward Senter, 28, Mayfield. Police said Senter apparently lost control of his car.

Carter Countian, 93, Dies A 93-year-old Carter County native, Willie Atkins, died Monday of injuries CHOPPY WATER on the Ohio River yesterday kept the number of holiday boaters from reaching a summertime peak, according to a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman. Nevertheless, hundreds of boaters spent the day on the river. In a bleak side to the July Fourth holiday, two of the boaters lost their lives in accidents. (Story on Page 3.) Gethsc in a Baptist to Church Becomes Victim of Progress has been holding Sunday services for two years.

In April preliminary arrangements were made to sell the church to the Teamsters Union for use as a meeting hall. A contract for the sale was signed May 31. Then, Wednesday night, the church awarded a $100,000 contract for the construction of the first phase of a new church at 10498 Blue Lick Road. "It's miraculous that people who have gone to a church for years and years decide to up and move," the Rev. Mr.

Casey said. "It's been a hard decision. It would have been easier for the congregation and me to just stay put. But we're moving not because of its desirability, but because it's a necessity." has had a hard financial go of it, and the building shows it. Cakes of plaster have fallen off in a dozen spots.

The faded Gethsemane Baptist sign is barely readable. The pastor says the sanctuary seats 350 comfortably and can take about 125 more "if we bring in a few chairs." Last Sunday 65 attended services. "The exodus of people from the church has just made it economically impossible to support ourselves," the Rev. Mr Casey said. The church realized this about three years ago, he said, and started looking for a place to relocate.

It selected an area about seven miles away in a growing new subdivision. It set up a mission church there, where the Rev. Mr. Casey received when struck by a car Sunday near his home at Olive Hill. He was walking along U.S.

60 near his home when hit. The deaths raised the traffic toll to 453 for the year as compared with 488 on July 4 last year. During the 1966 Fourth of July holiday period, 19 persons died on Kentucky highways. A head-on collision on KY 227 eight miles northwest of Richmond in Madison County took the lives of Charles Raymond Dotson, 36, Richmond, and Orville Meadows, about 23, Olney, 111. Meanwhile, Fourth of July holiday traffic, though heavy, flowed comparatively smoothly yesterday on the last day of the holiday weekend at four Kentucky points where delay-causing bottlenecks had occurred earlier in the weekend.

The London state-police post reported no difficulties along new construction on U.S. 25 at the junction of Interstate 75 one mile north of Mount Vernon. "Traffic was extremely light," the sta Staff Phots THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT Jodi Henderson of Louisville, wearing a minidress purchased in London, inspects another girl's costume at Standiford Field, where Jodi and 111 other Kentucky teen-agers arrived from Scotland aboard a chartered plane. Home of the Miniskirt Top Spot for the Young By BILL PETERSON Courier-Journal Staff Writr Gethsemane Baptist Church has lost its battle with progress. But it isn't giving up.

It is just going to pick up its stakes and move. The church at 840 Grade Lane has Avaged a running duel with industrialization, expressway construction and Stand if ord Field since it was founded in 1943. The inevitability of the outcome didn't become evident, however, until the church slowly began to choke to death about four years ago. The church's pastor, the Rev. Hayward Casey, outlined the battle in an interview.

"The big thing is, of course, industrial encroachment," he said. "But the start of the real demise of our congregation started with plans for the construction of Interstate 65." The expressway runs several hundred yards behind the church and" cuts it off from the large residential community around Preston Highway. "We tried to get an underpass built, but we didn't have any luck," the Rev. Mr. Casey said "Now someone who lives less than a half a mile west of us has to drive about 10 minutes through heavy traffic to come to church." Impoverishment Shows "People have a tendency not to attend church if it isn't real near," he said.

Construction of the Ford assembly plant on Grade Lane, just two blocks south of Gethsemane Baptist, in the mid-1950's cut the church off from the area to the south. A complex of warehouses has grown up around the Ford plant and small manufacturing plants have spread to within a half-block of the church. "The airfield (a block northwest of the church) was here before we were, so I guess we can't complain about that. But the jets are creating more and more of a disturbance each year," the Rev. Mr.

Casey said. The pastor's office is in a red brick educational building the church built in 1959. The church's whitewashed concrete-block sanctuary is a few feet away. The Rev. Mr.

Casey admits the church To hear them tell it, the only street in London is Carnaby Street, and traditional tourist attractions, such as Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace, are for middle-aged folk over 30. The birthplace of the miniskirt, with its tiny clothing shops and rock-'n'-roll music, apparently was irresistible to the 112 Kentucky teen-agers who arrived home yesterday afternoon from a three-week tour of Great Britain. Their mothers may still look to Paris for the latest dress styles, but the sons and daughters have found a new fashion mecca, a short London street, where designer Mary Quant and model Twiggy are goddesses. Back by Chartered Plane "It was wonderful, just wonderful," said 18-year-old Jodi Henderson of Louisville, shortly after she disembarked from a chartered plane at Louisville's Standiford Field. She was referring to Carnaby Street, not the tour of England and Scotland sponsored by the Kentucky branch of the English-Speaking Union, although she liked that too.

"Carnaby Street was the first place we headed for," Jodi said. "There were all these wonderful things to wear. Some of the boys bought kilts." Like many of the other girls, Jodi was wearing a Carnaby Street acquisition. Her outfit was a lime-green mini-dress with fishnet stockings. At three pounds 10 shillings, or $9.80, the dress was a bargain, she said.

Eighteen-year-old Marty Ormsby of Louisville was also bubbling over with news of Carnaby Street as she greeted friends in a crowded Standiford Field lobby. "I couldn't have come home without visiting Carnaby Street," said Marty, while protecting a huge paper daisy that she bought there. Like most of the other teen-agers, the two girls spent two of the three weeks with families in Scotland. The English-Speaking Union trip was part of an exchange program which brought 88 students from Scotland, Canada and Great Britain to Kentucky last May. The Kentuckians, residents of the Louisville, Lexington and Frankfort areas, were returning the visit.

tion reported. It looks as though everybody went home yesterday (Monday)." No Munfordville Difficulties The state-police post at Bowling Green reported no difficulties at 1-65 north of Munfordville, near the junction of U.S. 25-W. A spokesman said traffic was heavy but that the northbound traffic, flowing from two-lane U.S. 25-W into four-lane 1-65, created no such bottleneck as had been formed earlier in the weekend when southbound traffic was tunneling off I 65 onto U.S.

25-W. At the Richmond station, slate police said there were no traffic difficulties on U.S. 127 north of Danville although they added there might be some delays at night if there is a rising flow of late-returning drivers. U.S. 41-A in the Ft.

Campbell vicinity was "keeping fairly clear" during the daylight hours, the Madisonville state-police post reported. But the police said some delays might develop later in the night as traffic increases with returnees from a Fourth of July celebration being staged at the fort. Architectural Group's View Caution Urged On Zoning Changes Kosair Hospital Drive Hits 73 Kosair Crippled Children's Hospital has reached 78.3 per cent of its $235,000 fund-raising goal, according to campaign chairman Joe L. Hamilton, but contributions have started to dwindle. If the drive, which ends July 31, fails to reach the goal, there will be a cutback in services and possibly a reduction in the number of children at the home, Hamilton seid.

"This has never happened and I hope it won't this year," Hamilton said. "We hope that people throughout the state will respond to the hospital's needs." Contributions may be mailed to Kosair Crippled Children's Hospital, 982 Eastern Parkway, Louisville. selves adequate to make this type of industry a good neighbor for Anchorage or any other suburban area." Ward said that hearings on the proposed changes before both the Planning Commission and Fiscal Court have not been adequately advertised. "We feel that for a change that will have such an impact on the development of this metropolitan area, its implications have not been adequately aired and should be, before the Board of Aldermen and the Fiscal Court put these changes into effect." the MP-2 classification similar to the type of industrial park that the Louisville Nashville Railroad wants to build in Eastern Jefferson County. In a statement yesterday, Jasper Ward, chairman of the AIA subcommittee, said the subcommittee is "in accord with the decision of the administration and the Planning Commission to allow and encourage a manufacturing park in the East End." However, the subcommittee said it "sees no justification for relaxation of existing standards that are not in them A subcommittee of the Louisville chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has asked Jefferson County Fiscal Court not to rush action on proposed changes jn industrial park zoning regulations.

The court has scheduled a hearing at 10:30 a.m. today at the courthouse on a proposal for several changes recommended by the City-County Planning Commission. The changes would make less stringent the landscaping and land-use density requirements in MP-2 industrial parks. If approved, the changes would make Stall Aerial Photo by Billy Davis, Director of Photography PROGRESS IS SQUEEZING the Gethsemane Baptist Church (foreground) out of its home at 840 Grade Lane. Industrialization, the construction of 1-65 and Standiford Field have combined to isolate the church and change the once residential area it occupies into a commercial area.

Faced with a dwindling membership, the congregation has decided to move. Standiford Field (background) is just west of the church, 1-65 to the east of it and the Ford assembly plant just two blocks south..