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ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL GT NEWS ONLINE news and more, visit -the Journal's Web site, updated daify. "mMrw.4bqjouraal.com nn 100 Business 4 Weather 8 T) Deaths 8 Candidates Clash Over Campaign Ads Mo JIM ELS HAW i Kelly, Wilson Say Spots Are Attacks I a If Of the Journal Np United States. Wilson's re-election campaign, meanwhile, held a news conference last week in front of a sewage treatment plant to protest a Kelly campaign ad as "polluting the airwaves." Kelly's ad attacks Wilson's record on education issues. In it a little girl says, "Heather Wilson put her own party ahead of us school and goes on to say she voted against cer- See 1ST on PAGE B2 tiie 1st Congressional District Kelly, a Democrat, has called on Wilson, a Republican, to denounce some third-party "soft money" ads-being aired to her benefit, saying their sponsors. Citizens for a Better Medicare and the Seniors Coalition, 'are fronts for the pharmaceutical industry, which is supporting the Republican version of a plan to provide a prescription-drug benefit to Medicare.

"My opponent Rep. Wilson should demand they pull the ads or that they at least reveal who they are," Kelly said in a statement Wilson spokesman Enrique Knell said those ads which by law aren't coordinated with the campaign are "positive" in nature. He also said Wilson has been the subject of pharmaceutical companies' ads "targeting" her for voting for a measure that would allow the re-importation of drugs from other countries' which can be cheaper than drugs sold in the 20I By John J. Lumpkin Journal Staff Writer If recent fmpign communications from John Kelly and Rep. Heather Wilson are any indication, -bickering over political ads is competing with bickering over the issues in Football, Ag And the Artists the exit from the State Fair art gallery in which the work of high PREPARING FOR LIFTOFF school students from around the appeared, visitors were Too Sleepy For Escape' Alleged Mastermind of Jailbreak Took a Nap Instead, Police Report M3 1 Christopher Cook now faces a new felony charge of criminal damage to property and has joined captured inmate Edward Tenorio in the maximum-security section of the main jail Downtown, By Jeff Jones Journal Staff Writer The mastermind behind a weekend escape at the Bernalillo County Detention Center's West Side lockup wasn't among the six prisoners who actually made it out police say: He got sleepy and went to bed instead.

Armed-robbery suspect Christopher Cook, 22, confessed to kicking a hole in the wall of a portable jail building, according to a criminal complaint filed against him in Metropolitan Court The complaint added that Cook admitted he was planning to escape sometime late Saturday or early Sunday morning, "but he got tired and fell asleep." A half-dozen other inmates took advantage of a hole Cook created to shp out of the building, according to the complaint The escapees then scaled a pair of 12-foot-high fences topped with razor wire to get to freedom, and their escape happened sometime early Sunday. All but one of the escapees remained free as of Tuesday: Inmate Edward Tenorio was captured by a Bernalillo County sheriffs deputy about 6:45 a.m. Sunday as he was going to work and saw the wet, cold man lying in the mud on the side of a roadway. Cook now faces a new felony charge of criminal damage to property and has joined Tenorio in the maximum-security section of the main jail Downtown. Both now sport red jumpsuits that have "high-risk inmate" printed on them.

When asked for more specifics Tuesday about the escape and possible hole-kicking incident at the medium-security lockup, jail Capt. John Van Sickler said be couldn't comment because an administrative investigation is under way. "We're still investigating, and this will become another part of the investigation," Van Sickler saii Cook's jail bond in the damage case has been set at $7,500, a Metro Court worker said. He has been behind bars pending the outcome of a case involving his alleged role in the July robbery of an Albuquerque coin shop, and his jail bond in that case has been set at more than $100,000. Joseph Patrick Gerard, 44, Daloberto B.

Solano, 28, Joseph Jones Manning, 21, Pedro Chavez, 28, and Richard Leonard Garcia, 35, have been identified by the jail as the five escapees still free. People with information on their whereabouts can call Crime Stoppers at 843-STOP. I (: OO a encouraged to record comments in a book, Someone wrote the following art review of the work submitted by the students from Clayton High School, a small ranching community in northeastern New Mexico: -Wow!" 1 1 Kristi Fink of Albuquerque saw that comment in Jhe book and concurred quality was incredibly high," she said. "Every piece in the exhibit was in the upper percent of talent It was really above average. is exactly what it jftas.

Normally, you might see one out of 10 and say, That's But 95 percent of Clayton's was excellent We were intrigued tyit" Bill Carroll, who saw the exhibit with her; admits he's no art critic Then says "Wow!" struck him as the right chord. "There were so many different kids involved, so many subjects, so many different media and all from Clayton," be said. "It really grabbed me. We looked around the exhibit and it was about what you'd expect, one or two good ones out of each school; until we Ju the Clayton exhibit The difference was dramatic." FDR and art Carroll is a retired engineer who for many years was involved in the New Mexico State Science and Engineering Fair, which may not be art but does involve high school students and teachers who have unlocked enthusiasm. Carroll wondered how it could be that tiny Clayton, a ranching community of 2,500, could produce such artists.

kept seeing the same teacher's name Nils Wikner," he said. "I thought, well, this guy has got something going because he's managed somehow to inspire all these kids to do outstanding work." called Nils Wikner. We talked after he got a class settled into work. Wikner said art and Clayton went back a long way. You might even have to say Franklin Delano Roosevelt started it all and it's been going ever since.

The Clayton High School was built by the WPA (Works Progress Administration) program," he said. "We have what's probably the finest display of WPA art in the state in a museum here on campus. The old-timers, even going back to the '30s, give Clayton a reputation for producing fine artwork." 7Thirty-f ive Clayton kids submitted around 60 pieces to the State Fair. They worked in pencil, color pencil, pastel, conte crayon, water color, tempera and acrylic. Wikner said the kids sell their stuff on a regular basis and that it's not uncommon for some of them to go on to arts institutions after graduating from Clayton.

Currently, one is going to a school of design in Georgia on a $10,000 scholarship and another attends the Denver Art Institute. Telephone priorities support is community wide," Wikner said. "I've seen it in small ranching communities in Texas, Colorado and Oklahoma. There's a heart and spirit for the arts among the ranching community, and Clayton is no exception." He said they introduce kids to art in the lower grades, and if they're inspired to follow up, they enroll in his classes later. He doesn't care if they have talent Or ITvi try to get them enthusiastic about it, regardless of talent," he said.

The kids Who are talented are pretty obvious and we can build on that; and the ones who aren't achieve quite of bit of success. We hope they find it gratifying and satisfying. For aH.of the kids, what counts is a feeling of accomplishment and self-discovery." it's difficult to measure these things. Yardsticks on something as ephemeral as thjf value of art to a high school kid are hard to come by. j.

t. So you have to take your measuring devices as they come. For instance, on the Clayton High School Web page, three telephone numbers are listed at the bottom of the page: the football stadium, the agriculture department and the art department -ft is?" Nils Wikner said. "I can understand the ag department It's one of the finest in the state. But the ait department? I didn't know that That's cooL I'm going to tell my wife about that" Wrjte to Jim Belshaw at The Albuquerque Journal, P.O.

Draw Albuquerque, NM 87103; telephone 82S3930; JteWtawCa6qroarnai.com. GREG SORBERJOURNAL Gas balloons fill up Tuesday for the America's Challenge Gas Balloon Race, which began Just before 10 p.m. at the Kodak Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. Walker Helped Get Medicare Passed in 1965 2 Sunday in Albuquerque. He was 89.

A longtime Democrat who held several state offices, Walker suffered from leukemia for a number of years, WW after Johnnie Walker Scotch. The nickname stuck. He later legally added "Johnny" to his name because "Johnny Walker was a little bit more memorable a name than the others," said James "Bud" Mulcock, who served on Walker's congressional staff. He said Medicare was the big issue during Walker's 1964 campaign See WALKER on PAGE B2 Fe National Cemetery at 2:30 p.m. Born Elser Stephen Walker in Fulton, he and his family moved to Albuquerque when he was about 13.

Walker and his mother suffered from tuberculosis. The youngest of eight children, Walker left the University of New Mexico and went to work to support his family during the Great Depression, said his wife of 63 years. Army buddies during World War II began calling him "Johnny Walker" By Paul Logan Journal Staff Writer E.S. Johnny Walker helped in the passage of Medicare in 1965 as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

And while serving in the New Mexico House in the 1940s, Walker "ram-rodded" a bill through the Legislature that allowed women to serve on juries, his wife, Polly, said Tuesday. The two-term congressman died Veteran WALKER: Former state, congressional representative died Sunday his wife said. A celebration of Walker's life will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at St. Thomas of Canterbury Episcopal Church, 425 University NE.

Burial will be at Santa TODAY'S WINNING PIIOTO: UNDER THE RAINBOW Resolution Designates Comprehensive Plan Albuquerque resident Caroline Bryan, a Journal photo-contest winner, took this picture of a rainbow-colored balloon floating In Monday's cloudy skies at the Kodak Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. For contest Information and entry form, turn to A2. COURTESY CAROLINE BRYAN "I think it's extraordinarily important -that people choose the lifestyle they want to live," said Commissioner Barbara. Seward, whose district includes the largely rural North Albuquerque Acres. Development in rural areas, the comprehensive plan says, should consist primarily of ranches, farms and single-family homes on large lots.

City services are to be extended only1 'Under certain conditions, such as the lack of safe alternatives. Voters statewide will decide Nov. 7 whether to approve Constitutional Amendment 1, which would "start the process of combining tit? nd See COMPREHENSIVE on B2 Journal Staff Report An attempt to ease fears that a city-county merger would urbanize rural life was begun Tuesday by the County Commission and will be sent to the City Council to complete. A resolution was passed defining the AlbuquerqueBernalillo County Comprehensive Plan as the document to be used for land and development decisions if voters approve a constitutional amendment allowing a merger. Commissioner Ken Sanchez said concern about land use is "one of the biggest fears" about a proposed merger in his North Valley and West Side district A tr.