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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1996)
f Hi PAY K INDEX EcMortai Sports CroaottMoni COUNTDOWN (Liv* ttJI griuiuittum INSIDE Find out abiHit commencement and mare m the graduation mpplement The ttxlh annual cmtlidt art exhibit begin % tonight with a walking lour dawn town 1B 6A WEATHER Parity tunny High 7$ Utw VI. ■■■ — cumuiiMi fUc MuAot (can tar) UluM a tog around Hayward Fto4d with (loft to rlflW) Juna Soda, Uliana Gtuaac Marla Uutoia and ClUatwtfi May MuAot apoka at a banaftt dinnar tor (ha Eugana HIV Aitianca Thursday avantng Life goes on in spite of AIDS, speaker says ■ HOPt: A Marathon runner and a mother of an AIDS victim tell audience to see hope in virus By Ragtna Brown m&vt lnucmmon fam* An HIV-noaitiv* nmnrthtai rum** who ha* «tarred in Nik* uiramwi tala urged people not it> view AIDS *• a dehtltial log dlWMW *1 a sso • plat* fund mime tor the Eugene HIV Alliance, an orga lunation that provide* < onununtty AIDS udiMatton and nupport tor AIDS victim.* their friends and lhair families ieanne White. Ihe mother of Ryan White, a hemophiliac boy who con trailed the AIDS vtrua through a blo«><l tratMtuabm. also apoke Ryan baa ante a prominent apokeaman for the diaeaas at the age at 1,1 when he received nation *1 media attention tor hi* plight to stay to * school where other children end their parent* did not want him Rh: Multoi, whose I cell count i* so tow he almost ha* toil blown aid*, took* of how hi* paaaton for running helped him transform a Ufe sucking disease into a struggle to make the most of life Mu norite* run in B2 marathons since he iearned he U HIV positive “We have the freedom to choose between standing by and totting life pass u* by and surviving." Muftt.r said "Thl» quite clearly a celebration of lives ’ Mu (Vo* said he learned how to he a survivor from hi* mother, who raised him by herself and who died of cancer seven yean ago He told the crowd of other people with HIV or AIDS whom he admires because they have nut stopped enjoying life despite lit setbacks Me said he know* counties* numbers of marathon runner* with the disease who have accomplished mure then he luu People with AIDS thouhi not allow the disease to prevent them from achieving their goals. he *eid "Don't give HIV the power it so needs to cut *hort your precious life." he said White spoke of the power AIDS he* to bring people together She Mid her *on Ryan uswl the attention he received from hit buttle to stay In school to fight ignorance about the disease Ryan's ability to survive as long as he did and his ability lo bring attention to the dis ease constituted a miracle, she said Charity gets celebrities’ assistance ■ SEMI FIT: Local chanties found hundreds of famous individuals to donate for a fundraiser auction By Dawn Pauflh i CkMMIrtgr lfc>**!r**» Two Sammy Davy* Jr costume* uni an autographed umlmni Maria Mu lot* wore when setting the t.OOO metoi World Km out aw threw of the hundred* of Ittnua donated lo Lane Shelled are by celebrities for an auction Sunday Profit* from the Item* donated it* the "Breaking the Hamer*" am turn wtl! bane fit homele** families at f amily Shelter Home ami Brethren Housing “The profit* will jp> directly into omt atlnjt the budget.” said Herb Price. ih«> development director of lam Shelled .are "More fund* are needed right now because the demand if high * Th* item* will come from celohrittes *ui h a* Alan Alda. Vogt Herr a. Chris Miller, ihe Portland Trailblarer*. Terry Bradshaw Angina Huston, Snry liatnil tan, Maria Mutola. Richard Drayfuoa, Villa! Saasoon. lulu Child Crystal (Layla Kloyd Patterson, the Detroit Platon*. Hill Musgravn. J ) Hirdert. Oliver Slone Bob New hart. John El way, jimmy Carter. |»< k Kemp. Gov I Vie VVlIom. ”Cn«w h” C xoig T NeUon. Arnold Palmer. Naomi Judd. Jody Rung*. Troy Atkman and many other* Some Item* donated include auto graphed picture* button* book* and sporting good* from a wide variety of (arnou* people and team* "We have thing* for children, teenager*, college kid* and T V folk*." Price said "We re expecting 400 to 500 people, everybody will find something of Inter eat " Price *aul he believe* many |a*>ple will be making purchase* lo resell "We also have a lot of inexpensive thing* like caps." he mid Bill Musgrave. honorary chairman of the auction, quatlerhat k for the NR. Den ver Bronco* and University football team alumnus, wrote more than 400 letters to Turn to BENEFIT Page SA tugene Tire claims me 01 university student; four others escape ■ blaze: The cause has not yet been determined, but property damage is estimated to be between $75,000 and $100,000 By Brian Womack Coe*nswy A fire took the Ufa of a 21* year-old male Unimilly *tu dent early Thursday morning at a home on Pearl Street, said Eugene public safety apokea woman |an Power Investigator* suapact anon to be th* cause of the firm. Bui the •KM* cause of the fir* should be known today, she Mid The ori gin of ibe fire hat boon pin pointed, however The fire claimed no other vic tims. but the charred home was described as a “total loss'* with property damage between $73,000 and $100,000 The name of the student who died will not be released until he is positively identified through forensic testing, as investigators need to lueata den tal records, she said. His ftmily ha* been noti fled on the basis of hw preliminary identification A gathering of friednd* had taken place earlier that morning at the home, utd Rich Keeee. a Eugene resident The man area aaleep in a con verted carport when the fire started. The student s three room mates and a woman who was spending the night were able to climb oul of the windows to escape the fire without any injuries The fire, which happened ai 1677 Pearl St.. was r«|Murto<l to Kugene firefighters at 4 45 a m Thursday The first firefighters to arrive at the scene said the 76 year-old home was "fully engulfed in flames." A search ana rescue team was formed, but only two-thirds of the house could be searched because of the intense heat from the fue After additional fire units arrived to battle the flames, the Are was Quickly brought under control. When the rest of the home was searched, the body of the student was discovered. Aram tnv'MiiipUot* and detec li vim from the violent trim* anil of in* Kogetto p«tic« win* celled to the M #no to help investigate after police teemed there bed been an argument at the house that night, during which some one threw a chair out a bach window Police have nut determined whether there wa* any connec tion between the argument and the Are. Thu Asmurmtud Prmm contributed tothi* report
