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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1996)
NATIONAL HtWS fRQM AROUND !Hf COUMIHY Wildfires in Southwest threaten communities ■ DANGER: Embers from a barrel of burning trash started a blaze that destroyed 18 homes QUEST A, N M (API — Fir* crew* used hand tool* and hell copter* Tuesday in * fight to keep a 7,200 tim fir* from advancing * i«u sleep * anyon* end mountainsides into two communities in northern New Mexico Helicopters hauled huge bucket* of water to drop on the flames in a steep canyon of the ( arson National Forest. Ground crew* chopped and burned fire break* between the fire and the communities of Rett River and Quests "We would hope that some thing could slop the fire where it's at. but in all reality, it could get very dose." said lake Plan e, administrator for the town of Red River, a mountain ski resort About 450 of Red River's 500 residents were evacuated Offi cials allowed them to return home later Tuesday, with warn ings to tie prepared to leave in a hurry The fire was still moving toward town, but firefighters said they could probably control It. About 600 others had evacuat ed from La lama, where a New Age spiritual community of about 70 families suffered heavy damage, and from La Quest a. a ranching town of about 1.700 Euple a few miles from Red ver The flames had already destroyed 27 buildings in la Lama, 18 of them homes. That community is about five miies north of where the fire was start ed Sundsv wh«n ember* flew out of a barrel being used In bum tmfa A San Cristobal man readily admitted be burned the trash," said Paul Nay. director of tnves ligations for the state fire mar •Hal's office. The man could face mtsde meaner charges of improper handling of a fire, as well as ha sued by tha U S For**! Service for the coat of fighting the wild* fires II caused, authorities said No on* was estimating when the fire might be contained, fire information officer hen Palm rose said. A serious drought, exacerbat ed by below normal winter snow accumulation, has con tributed to the fires, which have flared across New Mexico and Arizona week* ahead of the region’s usually severe fire sea son "We haven't sewn a fire in this ar*« since the turn of the centu ry." said Gary Schiff, spokesman for the ('.arson National Forest "That indicate* |uat how dry the Southwest is," Fire crews in Arizona have built containment lines around 80 (am ent of a fi.tOOacr* forest fire on Mount Graham, the site of an $2S million astronomy observatory complex Observatory employee* were briefly evacuated a few times since the fire began April 24 Twice during the weekend, flames got to within about 200 yards of the complex Because of the fire danger, the Forest Service this week wilt close more than I million acre* of national forest land in north ern Artxona. authorities Mid Tuesday Perfectionist discovers error in own textbook, kills spouse ■ MURDER: Depressed and paranord. the mathematician believed his prestige was ruined TRENTON. N J (API — Wal ter Petryshyn'* well-ordered world began to aum apart with the terrible realisation that he had made an error in a textbook A highly regarded Rutger* University mathematician with a reputation a* a perfectionist who loved both hi* work and hi* wife, Petryshyn became depressed and paranoid, started losing weight and began obsess ing over apparently imaginary health problems, longtime friend Boadaa Boychuk said "He bit that his prestige was destroyed, that his col leagues in mathematics would laugh at him." Boychuk said. The obsession may have dri ven him over the edge Accord ing to proaecutors, early Monday Petryshyn smashed his wib's skull with a daw hammer 30 times. Her body was found in the couple's townhouse in North Brunswick. Petryshyn. a 67-year-old Ukrainian immigrant, was charged with murder in the death of his wib. Arcadia Olen ska-Petryshyn. a 61-year-old painter who exhibited her work internationally He was tailed on $500,000 I wit It w»* the (estbook error that "really broke him." Boychuk Mid The problem* began a year ago. when Petryshyfi published the textbook, Ipcnrruhtrd Toptt logical Drgrt)* and Hemthnaar Equation*. Mid Boychuk, • Ukrainian poet who live* in Riverdale. N V “I noted very drastic change*." Boychuk Mid. "He discovered that there we* tome mistake in that book, and he told me that mistake was very seri ous, very big. and he couldn't solve It,'* But Boychuk Mid he under stood that Petryshyn's editors at Cambridge University Pres# in England Mid "the error wes small, that the book was very good, well received and sell ing "That's the irony It was all in his mind." Boychuk said Petryshyn's editor. Lauren Cowles. 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