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Oregon Daily WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1.1994 EUGENE, VOLUME 95, ISSUE 164 CMAHT Ron Stockman (middle) comforts Cookie S/akacs' husband. Bob Szakacs, and her son Jett across from the University Bookstore Tuesday. Cookie, who owned a hot dog stand by the University Bookstore, passed away last weekend. Hot doa vendor’s death shocks campus Merchant: Cookie Szakacs' ran hot dog stand 15 years, became familiar to University area By Rebecca Merritt Oregon O&fy Em&aid Knt Pudvvill stares .it the fresh flowers adorning the tonu-i Hot dog stand in disbelief. A bright (link sign, placed on U*p of the cart by faintly mem burs. announc.es the death of ludith "Cookie Szakacs For 15 vears. Szakiu s operated her familiar hot dog cart at the corner of 13th Avenue and Kincaid Street. Szaokacs died at her home Saturday from a cerebral hemor rhage. She Was 52. "I'm shocked." FHldwill said "1 just saw her here on Friday 1 ike many University >tucitJiitPudwill s,i\s she didn't know Cookie very well aside from buying n few hot dog*. But. like frog and Ins joke books, Cookie's hot dog stand was a constant to tin* University's ambience "She was just a fixture You assume she is going to l«< there everyday," said Kristie I’roUdfoot, an employee at folkways Imports lm on 1 ith Avenue I thought it was always nice having a familiar I ice around It makes it seem more like a neighborhood " foil Maiick, manager of Shutterbtig. agreed "She's always I men there," he said I bouglit a i otiple of hot dogs, and she w as real nice to me “ Memorial servit es for Cookie have freon si I led u led for " p 111 COOKIE, NATIONAL Ways and means head indicted on 17 charges Felony: Rep. Rostenkovt\ki will lose House chairmanship because of jury's allegations WASHINGTON (AP) A grand jury today indicted Rep. Dun Kos tunkowski on t" felony counts, allng itiK he stoli’ more than a half-million dollars from t!u> government in two decades and limn tried to obstruct a federal investigation of Ins offii « I lm ( barges, painstakingly detailed at an afternoon news conference by !' S Attorney Km: Holder, will imme diately cost Kostenkowski Ins i hair manship of the House Ways and Means Committee I yen before the indictment was released, Rostenkows ki defiantly professed Ins innocence and predicted he would he v indicated at trial "Truth is on my side," Rostenkows ki said in a statement Monday night He was not m Washington today in a methodical presentation. Hold er alleged a "very reprehensible, vers offensiv e'' pattern of corruption by the ifi year inr umhent. from padding Ins offii ml payroll with workers who per formed few or no official duties to using Ins offii e account to buy lav ish gifts for friends and (inverting cars leased by the government to personal use. Holder said some of those on the congressional payroll were required to give some of the money hack to Ros tenkou skis (.Imago office manager I he indictment charged that ghost employees endorsed their paychei ks ami gave them to the offii e manager, who would pay them in "substantially smaller dollar amounts of cash. Che office manager kept the remain ing cash in her desk or file < abinet. "which often contained several thou sand dollars of public money ” T .• to CHARGES. I’.me ! Job market looking strong to some college graduates Careers: Students who work hard at job search are usually successful CORVALLIS (AP) — While the odds are still poor for find ing a good job right after gradu ating from college this year, there are exceptions. Shelly Marlin, an Oregon State University senior, is a chemical engineering major who has already been offered up to $42,000 a year by Chevron Chemical Co. Martin, who has yet to accept an offer, has already been mak ing money as an intern in her field, recently eurning up to $3,000 a month. “I’ve been marketing myself for years." Martin said. "I've put mvself hi the position where I'm ,1 top rei ruit fur Oregon State Main ot her < lassmatcs do not enjoy such a strong bargaining position. A national survey by North western University showed that it) percent of the companies responding said they would cut employees this year A study by the U S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicted that 30 pert ent of college graduates entering the labor force between now and 2005 will be unem ployed or find work for which they are overqualified. “It's not enough to have a degree anymore," said Shirley Gregory, the career planning and placement director at Ore gon State. Turn to JOBS. Page 4 GOOD MORNING ► 1'wu University students dis covered a decomposing body in .1 pickup true k behind lho Su; 111a Phi Epsilon fraternity Sun day. Slav J.~ Police identified the man as 17 year old Mark Stevens Crain of Crnnts Pass Crain was apparently return ing from a doctor’s appointment in Salem and pulled into the alley at 1000 Alder St to rest, pola e spit ulate Crain is said to have suffered from epilepsy and a recent I Kick surgery. His family reported him miss ing on Friday and told polic e he left home without lus epilepsy medication. According to police, the two students who found Crain notit ed a strong odor in the area, but at first believed it to be garbage. Only when the odor increased the next day was the cause identified. Toxicology tests due in three 68° 50° or four weeks should indie ate u cause of death ► BELLFOUNTAIN. Ore (AP) — Her ears were long arid potnty. her nose was black and wet. and her lur coat was soft and new. The only problem was that she didn’t look anything like her mother Lacy, a 2-year-old Great Dane, had adopted an aban doned lawn. Ellis Conn, found dog and deer lying together on Saturday night, when he returned to his farm in the foothills of the Coast Range. Lacy was licking the little spot ted deer, which Conn guessed to be a day or two old When he picked the fawn up, Lacy growled When another dog on the farm trotted up, Lacy attacked it The fawn seemed to like the idea of Lacy being its mother The deer tried to nurse on the Great Dane, and Lacy stayed close to the baby doe On Sunday, the lamily brought the deer to the Chintimim Wildlile Rehabilitation Center in Lewis burg. It will be moved to a volun teer's (arm and bottle-ted until ready to graze on its own, said director Becky Picton. Jody Conn said his dog moth ered the fawn right up to the moment the animals were sepa rated, The Great Dane whim pered and fought to get loose when Conn and his lather took the deer out of their pickup truck to turn it over to the refuge man agers.
