The Michigan Daily - Friday, July 20, 1984 - Page 5 Golden Fleece award enters 10th year WASHINGTON (AP) - In Greek were "just too cor mythology, the Golden Fleece was an clear the corporal armload of ram's wool that Jason had to "separate the w to snatch from under the eye of a THIS KIND of sleepless dragon and bring back to Proxmire, either. Greece. when the Smithso Sen. William Proxmire has used the story for 10 years to symbolize what he considers outstanding examples of W hen wasteful, ridiculous or ironic gover- $89,000 nment agencies.t AND IN granting his Golden Fleece tionary wards he is given to flights of rhetoric tongue,' and fancy figures of speech to make his point. expendil Just his month, for instance, the lag g Wisconsin Democrat said an advertising l uag( program of the Federal Crop Insurance Corp. was "an example of federal $89,000 in public spending that wasn't proper, came a dictionary of T cropper, and turned out to be a whop- Mexican tongue, per." expenditure "doei Not content with this, he said the language." program "did not amount to a hill of "I don't know ho beans." Furthermore, he said, such ex- had in Tzotzil, bu penditures "run against the grain" of my feelings," he s most taypayers. He said he did not Here are more know whether the crop insurance ads mire's prose: i .F 4 Police investigators gather evidence outside a McDonald where a gunman went on a rampage Wednesday, killing tw McDonald's susj (Continued from Page 3) on the floor or I'll kill someone,' " San Diego police Lt. Paul Ybarrondo told a news conference. "And then he killed them anyway." "They complied and he proceeded to systematically start shooting the victims," he said. The victims ranged in age from 8 months to 74 years. The investigator said that on the day of the killing, Huberty took his family with him to traffic court to settle a citation, to a McDonald's restaurant near the court in northern San Diego for breakfast, on a family outing at the zoo and then back to the apartment. The neighbors said Huberty's wife and a daughter, who went to the restaurant after the fight, apparently left before he walked in and opened fire. Another daughter watched the incident from a neighbor's balcony without ever realizing her father was responsible for the carnage. Terry Kelly, an auxiliary deputy with the Stark County Sheriff's office, worked with Huberty at Babcock & Wilcox power generating plant in Canton, Ohio. He said Huberty was bitter about losing his job when the plant closed in October 1982. "He said that if this was the end of his making a living for his family, he was going to take everyone with him," Kelly told The Akron Beacon Journal. "He was always talking about shooting somebody. ny to work" but it was tion had not been able heat from the chaff." thing isn't new for As long ago as 1977, nian Institution spent " When President Reagan's inaugural committee used military personnel to squire visiting dignitaries around Washington, he said the committee was "taking the taxpayers for a ride." 9 When the National Science Foun- he Smithsonian Institution spent n public money to produce a dic- of Tzotzil, an obscure Mexican Sen. William Proxmire said the ture 'doesn't make sense in any money to produce a dation spent $14,000 on a program using 'zotzil, an obscure pigeons to test human economic the senator said the behavior, he said, "The researchers n't make sense in any coo while the taypayers get billed." When the Agriculture Department ow to say "We've been spent $40,000 on a study linking social t that about sums up characteristics to food preferences, aid. Proxmire said it was "guaranteed tc examples of Prox- cause a mighty case of indigestion for the noor taxnaver." it l ,0 " When the National Endowment for the Arts gave a $7,000 grant for a sound and light show at the Wisconsin Capitol, he said, "While attempting to tune in and turn on, this project has only turned off the American taxpayers." Noting that doctors who had received student loans were $28.1 million behind in repaying them, he said, "Paying these debts istone doctor's prescription the patient taxpayer should not have to fill." Taking the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to task for spen- ding $22,700 to plan for art and music in a future space station, he said, "This flar note in NASA's symphony leads me to conclude that NASA itself may be getting 'spacey'." " He gave the National Institute of Education "an F-minus for protecting the nation's taxpayers but an A-plus for promoting waste, fraud and abuse" ina release in which he said the institute failed to keep tabs properly on a gover- nment contract. Seat belt laws follow Canadian precedent TORONTO (AP) - Canadian of- ficials credit mandatory seat-belt laws - in effect here for years but just now spreading across the border - with sparing hundreds of lives. "There's been a considerable decrease in the number of drivers and passengers killed," says Orville Harron, a spokesman for the ministry of transportation in Ontario. "I would be inclined to say seat belts are the major factor." ON JULY 12, Gov. Mario Cuomo signed a bill making New York the first American state in which it will be illegal to drive or ride in a car without wearing a seat belt. Many more states are likely to follow, spurred by the terms of Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole's decision July 11 to require auto makers to install air bagssor automatic seat belts unless two-thirds of the states enact man- datory seat-belt laws by April 1989. Harron, in an interview at the ministry's suburban offices overlooking the 12 lanes of Canada's busiest highway, said resistance to the seat-belt law has faded in the past eight years. "There's still the odd die-hard around saying we're impinging on their rights," he said. "People think they're not endangering anyone else, and they should have a right to kill themselves." "It certainly is an infringement of anyone's rights," said Richard Greene, manager of traffic safety for the Canada Safety Council. "You and I and everybody pay for those things through our insurance payments." In Ontario, traffic deaths have drop- ped from 1,314 in 1975, the last year before mandatory seat-belts, to 783 in 1982, before rebounding to 830 last year. Before the law was enacted, studies showed fewer than 12 percent of drivers and passengers used seat belts, Greene said. Associated Press 's restaurant in San Ysidro, California yesterday morning enty people and wounding another dozen. pends advertising "He says, 'Hey, I got nothing to live for. I got no job or anything.' " Kelly described Huberty as a "radical" who worried about nuclear war and Soviet aggression and as a survivalist who bought and hoarded "thousands of dollars of food." "He talked about the end of the world," Kelley said. "He said he and his family were going to be the only ones left. He talked about going off into the woods." Six months ago the family moved to San Ysidro, Calif., 200 yards from the McDonald's restaurant where Huberty opened fire Wednesday. McDonald's Corp. yesterday asked advertising outlets nationwide to delay broadcast of its commercials following the massacre at the San Ysido restaurant, a company official said. "We are shocked and grieved by the tragic incident which took place yesterday," said spokesman Richard Starmann from the fast-food chain's suburban Chicago headquarters. He said company officials would continue meeting in the coming days to decide what would be done at the San Ysidro location and when to resume the ad campaign. Starmann said company officials do not anticipate any drop in business. "It was a bizarre, isolated and very tragic incident," he. said.