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a 1 1 ttt: Koko, Reaves concerts revievC I Cjio JL Beans ussd in soup, saiad evendswert 1 names gff 'ftw i TUESDAY Feb. 9,1993 Serving Eau Claire and West-Central Wisconsin msL fir mi office is damaged in morning fire si a i I I I 1 1 Associated Press Cariy Johnson entered her watercolor painting, "Rhythm of the Trees," In a Manchester Academy of Fine Arts show in England. Her work, entered by her mother as a joke, was among those chosen to go on display, and it has sold for $420. Judges' choice turns out to be painting of 4-year-old By The Associated Press MANCHESTER, England The Manchester Academy of Fine Arts chose an abstract watercolor to hang in its annual show, unaware that it was painted by a 4-year-old. I "Rhythm of the Trees," by Carly Johnson, was one of 150 paintings chosen from more than 1,000 works submitted for the six- week Show at the City Art Gallery in Manchester.

1 The academy's seven judges Real estate By Carol Patterson and Pamela Powers Menomonie News Bureau COLFAX An early morning fire killed a Colfax man and caused extensive damage to a real estate office below the second-floor apartment where the blaze started. Roger Valaske, 31, co-owner of RKR Screen Printing in Colfax, died in the fire. Valaske lived in an apartment above Tice Realty, S17 Main St. A state fire marshal from Eau Claire and Colfax Fire Chief Ray Johnson were investigating this morning the cause of the blaze. Bill Tice, owner of Tice Realty and a volunteer firefighter, said Valaske, apparently died of smoke inhalation.

He was found in his bed. "It looks like it started upstairs in his apartment in the kitchen," Tice said. "It burned down the' wall into our office. "It's a tragedy. It's a real mess," Tice said.

Tice said he awoke at 2 a.m. when he received the fire call. "I was getting up to fight the fire when they -called to ask if anyone lived upstairs in our building. I said, 'Yes there is. Roger lives up Tice said.

Tice said Valaske's brother-in-law, Fred Goers, a member of the Colfax rescue squad, gave Valaske CPR on the way to Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire. "It's one of those small-town things, where everybody knows everybody," Tice said. The older building located in downtown Colfax, from which Tice sold real estate and insurance, was insured for $54,000, Tice said. Nearly 40 firefighters from Colfax, Elk Mound, Menomonie and the town of Howard responded to the fire which began about 2 a.m., Johnson said. I 'II i I I said the work displayed "a cer- tain quality of color balance, composition and technical skill." The artist's mother, Helen, 28, said today that she submitted the picture as a joke.

"It nroves ahvbodv can do "It proves anybody can do modern art." Helen Johnson, artist's mother Staff photo by Dan Reiland died in the fire, which started in an above Tice Realty on Main Street. A Colfax firefighter this morning examines the scene of a blaze that killed a 31 -year-old man. modern art," Helen Johnson, a free-lance artist, told British Broadcasting Corp. radio. The academy president, Glenys Latham, defended the judges' decision, sayinj "Often technical skill can get in the way of instinctive response." "Remember that the art of children often has an innocence, an unplotted quality, which adults often strive to gain.

So I don't feel in die least embarrassed," Latham told BBC radio. Johnson said her daughter, who is now 5, describes the picture named by her grandfather, as "just a little pattern." Academy secretary Vera Lowe said a buyer in Ireland bought "Rhythm of the Trees'' today for $420 after seeing a photograph in a newspaper. Bill Tice, firefighter and owner of building smoky when firefighters arrived. Fire engines left the scene around 7 a.m., Johnson said. 4 It's a real mess.

Johnson said. "It was a bugger to put out." Johnson said the building was any president has shrunk the size of the White House staff." "I believe a smaller White House staff will work better," Clinton said. Clinton called the cuts "a process of revitalization that must consume ur entire government For too long, the government has been on auto pilot. The administration said that the A Roger Valaske apartment Clinton: White critic Cut staff by 350 workers (leaving 1 saving $1 0 million annually. Eliminate use of chauffeur-driven limousines, except for select few officials.

Turn exclusive dining room into cafeteria for all employees. 350 jobs, into cafeteria use of chauffeur-driven limousines and turn an exclusive dining room into a cafeteria for all his employees. Clinton said the moves are intended to show that the administration will share in the sacrifices all Americans will be asked to make as part of a deficit reduction and economic-stimulus plan he will unveil next week. "Twelve years of denial and delay have left a legacy that will be cuts announced today would result in a White House staff totaling 1,044, down from 1,394 in the Bush administration as of Election Day last November. The White House reorganization announced today did not include two major White House offices the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of the U.S.

Trade Representative. White House Chief of Staff Thomas McLarty said those Cabinet-level White House agencies will also be required to make cuts, but through a separate process. Clinton did not challenge Congress to make similar cuts, although he promised to do so during the campaign. 'It's a real tragedy. The fire was discovered by a Colfax police officer on patrol.

"The fire was in the attic," will have to be increased in other areas, such as for computers and telephones, to bring the White House up to date. Clinton; announcing the changes in brief remarks in the White House briefing room, said: "We in government cannot ask the American people to change and not do the same." He asserted it was "the first time ment agencies to consider assisting SSI. "Some government people who have been talking about contracts with SSI in the past will meet with them this week," he said. "We are pursuing every possible government agency that could be interested in utilizing equipment like this." Gunderson wouldn't reveal what agencies were talking with SSI officials or what type of arrangement they were discussing. He said the negotiations must be kept secret.

"What we're trying to determine is what is the marketability and governmental need for supercomputers," he said. A Gunderson spokesman said a number of efforts are afoot to secure investments for SSI, but IBM needs to show flexibility. Lawmakers send letter to IBM President to cut turn dining room By Terence Hunt Associated Press WASHINGTON President Clinton today unveiled a plan to cut White House payrolls and privileges, announcing cuts of 350 workers. "Our White House will be leaner but more effective," Clinton said. The plan, which Clinton said would be followed by other cuts in other agencies, would restrict the In Bulletin.

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The Leader-Telegram Is printed with environmentally safe Inks on newsprint containing over 20 recycled paper. yfv Recycle this newspaper Volume 23 Number 244 23 Pages nard to overcome," Clinton said. Officials claimed the staff reductions down to 1 ,044 employees will save at least $10 million in personnel costs. The reductions are to be achieved by hot hiring employees for. all openings, early retirements and sending borrowed employees back to their home agencies.

Officials cautioned that spending SSI shutdown has minimal effect on local real estate market, study says. Page 1B. in cooper'" ion with Democratic Sens. Russell Feingold and Herb Kohl isn't confrontational, Gunderson said. "I've learned in these kind of relationships you need to explain, encourage and promote this kind of cooperation.

A yelling match won't accomplish anything, he said. No one is trying to reconstruct the financial arrangement that existed between IBM and SSI, but SSI must be given time to pursue alternative funding, Gunderson said. Gunderson said he met with IBM officials a few times last week. Gunderson added that he's arranged for certain federal govern New TV station finally on the air ByRodStetzer Leader-Telegram staff It's taken nearly 10 years, three separate owners and a blizzard of unfulfilled promises, but WEUX-TV, Channel 48, signed on the air, today. Honest.

"I think everybody here is very happy- to have a signal," said Andy Radig, the station's creative services director." "We've been working a long time to get to this point. It' like giving birth, to a baby. We're born." WEUX becomes the Chippewa Valley's fourth-over-the-air tele-; vision broadcaster, following NBC affiliate WEAU, Channel 3, ABC affiliate "WQOW, Channel and PBS affiliate WHWC, Channel 28. See TV, Page 2A By Michael Klein Leader-Telegram staff Wisconsin's two U.S. senators and U.S.

Rep. Steve Gunderson are sending a letter to International Business Machines Corp. urging the company to allow Eau Claire's Supercomputer Systems Inc. more time to find new investors. IBM withdrew funding for SSI Jan.

25 and has set Friday as a deadline for SSI to find new investors before it starts liquidating the company. "We've asked them what the cost is of delaying any moves in the property," Gunderson, R-Osseo, said this morning in a telephone interview from Black River Falls. "It should be little or no cost to them, yet it's totally significant in SSI's efforts." The letter, which is being written.