Oregon's Kathy Hayes
breaks collegiate
record, winning
the 10,000 meters
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Oregon daily
emerald
Thursday, May 31, 1984
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 85, Number 166
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Photo by Michael Clapp
Coffee Cart owner James Thornton says street vendors have to contend with the weather and
overhead, just like campus area restaurants.
Competing for campus clientele
By Lori Steinhauer
Of the Emerald
Though the dispute between the hot dog
vendor outside the University Bookstore and
the Lane County Health Division has ended,
hostilities still lurk over the presence of street
vendors on the corner of 13th Avenue and Kin
caid Street, according to business owners
there.
On April 20, the office of Environmental
Health filed a complaint with the district at
torney against Dog House owner Cookie
Szakacs for having neither a county license,
nor a commissary to store her operation at.
Oregon law requires both for pushcarts
selling perishable foods.
However, Szakacs has since established
the Relief Pitcher Tavern as her commissary,
and, on Friday, county sanitarian Richard
Coots issued her a county license.
But several campus-area restaurant owners
are disturbed by the pushcarts' presence,
while others view the nearby vendors as part of
a free market economy.
"It hurts," says Russ Burton, who owns
Burton's restaurant. "I pay a lot of taxes and
these people don't pay any. And they take up
the sidewalks."
However, both Szakacs and Coffee Cart
owner James Thornton agree they have ex
penses similar to the restaurants, and further
more, they have poor weather conditions to
contend with.
"Basically it's the same bills the restaurant
would have, when you have to pay for your
commissary and you have to pay for your cart,"
Thornton says.
The cost of rain gear and losing cups and
lids in the wind also add up, he says out.
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It's Donald's birthday —
he'll quack if he wants to
He's turning 50 next month, but this fowl fellow appears only
half that age — if an animated duck looks any age at all.
Donald Duck, the lovable aquatic character created by Walt
Disney, and honored as the University's mascot, is celebrating his
golden anniversary june 9, and the University is planning an early
party in his honor.
The EMU will be serving free birthday cake to celebrants this
Friday in the Fishbowl from 1 to 4 p.m. Between 9:30 and 11 a.m.,
sruoenrs win ue aoie
to sign a giant birth
day scroll for
Donald in the lobby
and give him their
best wishes on a
video-taped recor
ding, both of which
will be sent to
Disneyland.
To add to the
hoopla, the
Mayflower Theater
will be presenting a
Donald Duck film
festival beginning
)une 6 and running
through the end of
the month.
Walt Disney
himself approved
the University's re
quest to have
Donald as its
mascot. When the
contemporary
Disney corporation
learned of this,
Eugene was added
to the list of 13 cities
nationwide who will
be soon visited by
Donald and his friends.
Photo courtesy Disney Produc lions
Donald Duck
The comical cast will be greeted at Mahlon Sweet Airport Friday
by an equally impressive group, including Gov. Vic Atiyeh, Mayor
Gus Keller, the University Marching Band and rally squad and a
couple thousand of the Eugene community, according to Mike
Moskovitch, promotional manager at the University News Bureau.
Other birthday activities for Donald include the proclamation
of Donald Duck Day in Los Angeles, a special parade in Lake Buena
Vista, Fla., and a cementing of his webbed footprints at Mann's
Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
Hendricksen condemns U.S. actions in Central America
By Paul Ertelt
Of the Emerald
Women can and must take an active role in reshap
ing U.S. foreign policy in Central America, Sen. Margie
Hendricksen told a SEARCH class Wednesday night.
Hendricksen, the Democratic challenger to incum
bent U.S. Senator Mark Hatfield, said women must
work together to defeat Pres. Ronald Reagan in
November, because his reelection could mean direct
U.S. involvement in Central America.
"I am terrified that (Reagan) will get us into a war
there," she said. "Many of our young people will be
sent down there to die to prop up a right-wing dictator
that we wouldn't tolerate for five minutes."
The class, "Women, Politics and Latin America," is
taught by Deborah Romerein, of the Eugene Council of
Human Rights in Latin America.
Allison Hassler, Lane County president of the Na
tional Organization for Women; Sister Patricia Krom
mer, C.S.J.; and ASUO Pres. Julie Davis also addressed
the class.
Hendricksen accused Hatfield of showing "total
moral bankruptcy" in voting for military aid to El
Salvador in order to secure funding for a lock project
for the Columbia Gorge.
"This is particularly disturbing coming from a per
son who is supposed to be a dove," she said.
Hendricksen also recounted her visit to Nicaragua
last November as part of a delegation of Oregon
women. Nicaragua under the Sandinistas is neither a
dictatorship nor a "democracy as we know it," Hen
dricksen said, but a new government struggling to learn
democracy.
But Nicaraguans have little experience with
democracy.
"You have to understand they didn't have
democracy before (the Sandinistas came to power),"
she said.
Sandinista efforts are being frustrated by U.S. in
tervention in their country, Hendricksen said. The
Nicaraguan people are being "murdered and mutilated
by Contras we support by our tax dollars," she said.
Hendricksen admitted that visitors to Central
America, including herself, often bring their own
political perspective to the countries they visit.
"Denny Smith went down to El Salvador, was driven
around in an armored truck, and decided they have a
wonderful government down there," Hendricksen said.
The Reagan Administration's view of Nicaragua as
an exporter of Marxist terrorism is not shared by some
of its allies, and Western European nations have con
tributed millions of dollars of aid to Nicaragua, Krom
mer said.
But public opinion can have an effect on foreign
policy, Davis added.
"The University has the opportunity to steer people
away from preconceived notions of the way things
should be," she said.
But the American perception of Central America is
being shaped by misinformation from both the Reagan
Administration and the media, Hendricksen said.
"The American people are not stupid, but they need
proper information," she said. "I think they're a lot
smarter than their president is."
Photo by Michael Clapp
Sen. Margie Hendricksen fears the Reagan Ad
ministration's involvement in Central America could
bring this country into a war.