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Tuesday January 6, 1987 Madison, Wisconsin 35 cents Tf rate toomal Airtf Cemteir meay move tf vpfcuBum Theeatfeir Si By Joe Beck is to call all bets and say, "we're going to go here unless something else comes Rehberg said, adding it will take at least five years to move even after completion of funding and design plans. Mayor Joseph Sensenbrenner said he was delighted the Art Center remains committed to downtown. Art Center officials have studied all possible sites around the Civic Center, but have not looked beyond downtown, Rehberg said. "We're committed to downtown," he said. "We didn't look at anything that wasnt within a block of the current location.

"An Art Center deserves to be in that corridor with the public library and (state) historical society museum," he said. Garver said the Civic Center presents severe space problems. The Art Center can show only about 2 percent of its holdings at one time, while the rest remain in storage, he said. Art museums typically try to exhibit at least 20 to 40 percent of their holdings, he said. Garver praised the center's mcve from Lincoln School to its present location in 1980, an action that was controversial at the time.

The center's annual attendance The Orpheum has been considered too large to remain as a theater by its owners, Madison 20th Century Theaters Corp. Several proposals for other uses have died. Rehberg said the Art Center would keep its permanent collection in the Civic Center while using the Orpheum as gallery space for touring exhibitions, offices and, possibly, classrooms. Rehberg declined to assign any specific probability to the chances of the Art Center moving to the Orpheum. The option runs through July 15, 1987.

"One of my points about the option The Art Center rents 25,000 square feet in the Civic Center; about 60,000 square feet would be available in a renovated Orpheum Theater. Purchasing the Orpheum would cost 1450,000 with another $2 million to 3 million needed to convert the building, according to Art Center estimates. Michael Rehberg, president of the Art Center's board of trustees, said all money will come from private sources. He admitted it would take an ambitious fund-raising plan to realize the goals. "Sure, it's brave and bold, but it's Rehberg said.

has risen from 20,000 at Lincoln School to 100,000 on State Street, he said. The center also paid the civic center $80,000 last year for utilities costs and for maintenance for its space. While admitting the rent is well below prevailing commercial rates, Garver noted many other cities provide free space or money for organizations such as the center. Garver said the move from the 35,000 square-foot space at the Lincoln School to its present 25,000 square-foot location was worth it because "it consolidated our position and our image in the city." Of The State Journal The Madison Art Center has taken out an option to buy the Orpheum Theater as a first step toward a possible move into the State Street landmark. Art Center officials said Monday part of their organization will remain in the Madison Civic Center, 211 State Street, until at least 1995, when their lease expires.

"I think we want to maintain a public presence in the Civic Center," said Thomas Garver, director of the Art Center. The oath of office CD fOF Dallas Morning News r-. Oil 1 Lawmakers praised the defense proposal as more realistic than those in Reagan's past budgets. The budget calls for changes to save $6.7 billion from medical programs primarily Medicare, for the elderly, and Medicaid, for the poor. It would impose higher costs for home buyers who use the Veterans Administration and Federal Housing Administration programs, cut farm price-support costs by up to 25 percent and eliminate direct aid for college students, mass-transit grants, vocational-educational aid and rural-electrification loans.

Many of those ideas were proposed in past Reagan budgets and rejected by Congress. Reagan called for increases in "high-priority" areas including air safety, the space program, research on AIDS, assistance for the homeless and aid for displaced workers. Last year, the House and Senate rejected Reagan's budget proposal and Congress' final budget was different than Reagan's limiting defense spending growth, trimming programs that Reagan wanted to kill and tinkering with accounting to achieve onetime savings. The president's budget proposals are regarded "more as a bargaining position than as the last word," a House Democratic aide said. Reagan's budget also calls for: Saving $6.7 billion in 1988 and $50 billion over five years by tightening physician payments under Medicare, capping payments to the states under Medicaid and limiting VA medical care for middle- and upper-income veterans.

Reforming farm price supports "to solve the farm program problems once and for all" The plan would remove incentives to overproduce by ending the link between farmers' production and government subsidies. WASHINGTON President Reagan on Monday sent his federal budget for fiscal 1988 to Capitol Hill where lawmakers greeted its proposals and its deficit projections with skepticism. Reagan described his spending plan as "a crucial blow" to the federal deficit, trimming the red ink from $173.2 billion this year to a projected $107.8 billion in fiscal 1988, which begins Oct. 1. That is just below the deficit target of $108 billion set by the Gramm-Rudman balanced-budget law for next year.

But House Budget Committee Chairman Bill Gray, D-Pa, called Reagan's estimate "a false starting line," noting Congress' budget experts project a deficit $19 billion higher than the White House figures. And Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lawton Chiles, said the gap between Reagan's budget estimate and Congress' could be up to $27 billion. He called Reagan's budget proposal "a little flim-flam." To reach a deficit of $107.8 billion, Reagan proposed $18.7 billion in spending cuts, $1.3 billion in interest savings and $22.4 billion in increased revenues, including $6.1 billion in increased tax collections. The proposals could hit Medicaid, food stamps, soil conservation and school nutrition programs. Farmers could lose income if Congress accepts White House proposals for amending price supports, and the oil industry could be hurt by slower filling of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and sale of the Navy's petroleum reserves.

Reagan proposed a 7.7-percent defense increase 3 percent or 4 percent above inflation, depending on how the boost is calculated in spending authority, giving the Pentagon $312 billion to commit for current and future operations, construction and weapons purchases. Fiscal 1988 spending would be $297.6 billion, up from $282.2 billion this year. A large crowd in the State Capitol watched Tommy Thompson take the governor's oath Monday. Slate Journal photo by Carolyn Pflasterer Yomnnnray promises co foettfeir sWe By Doug Mell Closer look at budget Defalk on Page 2 state officials, relatives and well-wishers assembled behind the speaker's stand. Earl was joined by former Lt Gov.

James Flynn. Former Attorney General Branson La Follette, who Hanaway defeated in a bitter campaign, did not attend the ceremony. Also attending were four former governors Lee Dreyfus, Martin Schreiber, Warren Knowles and John Reynolds. The ceremony ended a 20-year legislative career for Thompson, 45, who served as a Republican representative from Elroy. Thompson thanked Earl for his help during the two-month transition period, saying, "I think he's a class act" Thompson said the highest priority of his administration "will be jobs: more jobs, better jobs and, most importantly, secure jobs for Wisconsin workers." Referring to a recurring campaign theme, Thompson said, "We will work to make Wisconsin a leader in job creation and job retention, and not in state spending and taxation." The state's business climate "simply isn't what it should be," Thompson said, but "it makes little sense to point fingers to level blame." To improve that climate, he said, "we will fight for a state government that is pro-business and pro-worker.

We will fight for a state government determined to provide eq- Turn to Page 2, Col. 3 State government reporter Saying Wisconsin's future is unlimited, Tommy Thompson was sworn in Monday as the 41st governor and pledged to "make our great state even better." In a speech that echoed the themes of his campaign against outgoing Gov. Anthony EarL Thompson said his administration would improve the business climate, control state spending and cut taxes. But Thompson surprised observers at the noon ceremony in the Capitol rotunda by highlighting his commitment to preserving the state's natural resources. And the former leader of Assembly Republicans promised to work with Democrats on solutions to the state's problems.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Nathan Heffernan read Thompson the oath of office at 12:11 p.m., both standing in front of the bust of Robert "Fighting Bob" La Fol-lette on the first floor of the East Wing. Thompson, wearing a dark blue suit and a red tie, was joined by his wife, Sue Ann. Fourteen Wisconsin flags served as the backdrop for the ceremony, attended by an estimated 2,500 people. Also sworn in were Lt Gov. Scott McCallum, Attorney General Donald Hanaway, Secretary of State Douglas La Follette, and Treasurer Charles Smith.

Earl sat in the front row of the crowd of if "If IfMIHhMMR A A A A aK A A A A JAfe A iiTTTl A fZ. The new governor: purposeful optimism. State Journal photo by L. Roger Turner Inaugural report: Pgs. 3, 4, Look Today's hfjh PCB work will close Jefferson School Reagan surgery President Reagan underwent prostate surgery Monday, which his doctors described as a routine operation that showed "no suspicions of cancer." Details on Page 5.

Copter fired on A Navy helicopter flying a routine surveillance mission in the Persian Gulf was fired upon early Monday as it approached a merchant ship. Details on Page 5. Market soars The stock market soared to record levels Monday as the Dow Jones average of 30 industrials jumped 44.01 to 1,971.32. Details on Section 3, Page 4. Iowa tops UW Forward Roy Marble got eight of his 11 points and made two key assists in a second-half charge that lifted Iowa (14-0) to a 78-63 Big Ten basketball victory over Wisconsin (10-5) Monday night.

Details In Sports. lc Riln Thundtr- Snow ttormt By Roger A. Gribble Source: Weather Central mental Protection Agency consider an acceptable risk level to be one in 1 million. Travis said, "Any impact at all (from the PCBs) is based on two years or 250 (eight-hour) days at the school Even in three years our youngsters don't spend that much time in school "Staff members are at greater risk if they have been in the building longer," he added. "Those with greater potential risks will be offered blood tests and other appropriate The city Health Department said while the average PCB concentration in the school is low, it is above the recommended exposure limit set by the National Institute of Safety and Health in 1977.

Armstrong consultants said exposure to PCB levels found at Jefferson could result in "one excess cancer case in 100,000 people after 18 years: a risk of one in 100,000," according to the City Health Department The department said, however, that in protecting human health from risk of cancer the state and Environ mended by the city Health Department which conducted tests with a consultant, for Armstrong World Industries installer of the tiles, that revealed the emissions. Jefferson is at 101 S. Gammon Road, on the far West Side. Asked the level of risk from the emissions, Travis said, "Exposure to PCBs is greater in the environment in general The tiles were installed 16 years ago when the building was built Chances are there has been some type of emission all the way along." Of The State Journal Jefferson Middle School will be closed for up to 14 weeks beginning Jan. 19, and its 456 students will be shifted to other buildings to permit removal of ceiling tiles emitting a low level of cancer-causing polychlori-nated biphenyls (PCBs).

"This movement is a precautionary one to which the highest health standards have been applied," said School Superintendent James Travis. Removal of the tiles was Today: Cloudy and windy with a few afternoon rain showers developing. High near 37. South winds at 10-20 mph. Tonight Cloudy with light rain and drizzle likely, changing to light snow and flurries.

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