Page 10 THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1980
Dixy Lee Ray’s
odd reign ends
United Press International
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Gov. Dixy Lee Ray likes to ride almost
anything.
A blimp, hydrofoil, logging truck, steam locomotive, farm tractor,
supertanker, airplane, garbage truck and sports car — she sat at the
controls of all of them when she was not behind her desk in the
governor’s office.
Only one ride caught her by surprise. It was a twisting, turning
rollercoaster trip through Washington state politics. She was thrilled
on the way up but the downhill slide came quickly and was steeper than
she expected.
She bought her ticket in 1976 when she decided she was a Demo
crat. Before that, as a University of Washington professor, director of
the Pacific Science Center, and Atomic Energy Commission chairman
during the Nixon administration, she was rigidly independent.
Her victory in the Democratic primary four years ago caught politic
al observers off guard. She was riding a post-Watergate tide for non
politicians.
Her campaign themes were reduced government spending, less
regulation and greater administrative efficiency. People liked her
fresh, homespun approach. Her stocky figure, adorned in an open-
collared shirt, blazer and skirt over knee socks and canvas shoes
signalled something different.
She became the Washington governor by more than 133,000 votes in
her first try for public office.
Visitors to her office looked askance when a painting of her two pet
dogs appeared on the reception room wall in the space traditionally
reserved for the governor’s portrait.
Many of her new directors were recruited from the ranks of her early
campaign supporters with little regard for ability. She was forced to
replace two in her first year. Several others quit or were fired later.
Her rapport with the Legislature was strained from the beginning.
She vetoed a bill to ban supertankers on Puget Sound, angering many
fellow Democrats.
Her relations with the press turned icy when she abruptly cancelled
news conferences at the Capitol. She complained the press corps was
persecuting her. She disliked sparring over her inconsistencies.
A passionate supporter of nuclear energy, she lectured anyone who
would listen. Because she thought President Carter was not pushing
nuclear power hard enough, she told reporters he had wax in his ears
and was frightened in his mother’s womb.
She belittled all critics, particularly environmentalists. Ralph Nad
er, a favorite target, was described as “a totally ignorant man (with) no
credentials and no expertise in anything.”
In her second year, problems with appointees continued. Her
choice for adjutant general of the Washington National Guard came
under fire when it turned out he was receiving a police disability
pension. She charged the press with “character assassination.” She
eventually backed off, but not before some ranking officers who belit
tled her choice were fired or demoted.
More surprising was her budget request for the following two years,
a 36-percent increase. Conservatives swallowed hard. Relying on a
healthy economy, she sweetened the medicine with some modest tax
reductions and cuts in a state-supported welfare program for tempor
ary assistance. Most recipients were able-bodied anyway, she insisted.
Often she vetoed bills without telling key legislators in advance.
Once a group of voters came to watch her sign a bill for buying a park.
Chins dropped when she vetoed the measure «*s the sponsor watched
helplessly.
As the primary election approached, sho uismissed her Democratic
challenger, State Sen. Jim McDermott, as a free-spending liberal tied
to teacher unions which she openly detested on grounds the teachers
were more interested in paychecks than students.
McDermott, joined by three Republicans vying for their party’s
nomination, made her behavior in office the primary issue. A sagging
economy forced reductions in her budget as her opponents predicted.
Her personnel turnovers, feuds with legislators, hostility toward the
news media, and abusive attacks on almost anyone who didn’t share
her behefs were too much for voters to bear.
When the results were in, McDermott swamped her by more than
87,000 votes. It was the first time in 72 years a first-term incumbent
governor failed in the primary. Her ride on the state’s political roller
coaster was over.
Researcher reports
homing instinct
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A British researcher says human beings may
have senses similar to those that allow birds, fish and other migratory
animals to find their way home over long distances.
R. Robin Baker, a zoologist at Manchester University, said in a
report in the last Friday issue of Science magazine that his experiments
also suggest that, as with some other animals, magnetism may have
something to do with the ability of people to sense direction.
Baker, using blindfolded college students, bused them along twist
ing routes up to 30 miles from the university. Then he asked each
volunteer, still blindfolded, to guess the direction back to the starting
point.
The results: Some volunteers were right. Most pointed within 45
degrees of the correct direction, and only a few were completely
disoriented.
Although none of the correct guessers said they remembered the
route to the release point, some did say they were able to orient
themselves by feeling the sun on their faces.
Baker said most of the correct guessers were surprised they were
right. And there were as many correct guesses on cloudy days as on
sunny days.
He then ran a second group of experiments in which some of the
volunteers had bar magnets attached to their blindfolds. The others
were given identically sized pieces of brass, but all thought they had
magnets.
The volunteers with the magnets did significantly poorer than those
without. Graphs show relatively equal numbers of them pointing
literally in all directions. But the students without magnets were as
accurate as those in the previous experiments.
Baker said the results seem to show the ability to find directions
apparently involves sensing the surrounding magnetic field, because
the ability is impaired by wearing a magnet.
But he said the results are inconclusive because the magnets were
not of uniform strength and, although they were originally aligned so
their north poles pointed in the same direction, many of them slipped
in the elastic blindfolds during the drive.
Other research has indicated that some animals have the ability to
use the Earth’s magnetic field for navigation.
No one has ever tested humans before.
Staubach’s remark
angers Democrats
United Press International
DALLAS — Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback-tumed-sports
commentator Roger Staubach told his TV audience about a recent
conversation he’d had with his daughter, Amy, 4, indicating she, too,
knows about the bomb.
Sportscaster Frank Gleiber had encouraged Staubach, a staunch
supporter of Ronald Reagan, to discuss how best to stop the St. Louis
Cardinals’ offense.
“In fact, I talked to my daughter Amy this morning about it and she
said the No. 1 problem was the bomb,” Staubach replied.
The remark repeated nearly word for word a comment Carter made
during the presidential debate last week regarding his daughter’s fears
about nuclear proliferation.
Staubach explained his daughter Amy was referring to a different
kind of bomb — the long touchdown pass — that Cardinal wide
receiver Mel Gray is proficient at catching.
But the remark riled Carter supporters and CBS sports officials
called the press booth to tell Staubach to lay off the pohtics.
“Johnny Carson has done it (made fun of the Carter debate remark)
every night on NBC. Why don’t they call him? I’d say Amy Staubach,
at age 4, knows as much about football as Amy Carter knows about
nuclear proliferation.”
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