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10 A ' ' ' ; ,-T-7- MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOBD. ORE. '1';; . . wesim, ' Campaigns in Hew York, California Felt To Hold White House Key States Seldom .I,.'... Go Separate Ways In Election Years Washington - IUPI) - If you wakit to. know who may win the presidential election, keep close tabs on the election campaigns in California and New. York., Smart politicians are; doing Just that. , Those two states are . vital to the White House ambitions of he rival candidates - Vice President Richard M,. Nixon, Republican, and Sen. John F. Kennedy, Democrat. In past campaigns Califor nia and, New York packed a terrific- election punch since they could provide almost one-third of the electoral votps needed for victory. . More Important But they are even more im portant this ; year. Here is why:- ,. ' . :. - , , . , - There's no such thing as a solid Democratic South any more. -The one-time solidly Re publican areas of the North - also are changing their po ' litical complexions. Few stat es, : if any, are nailed down ; for; either candidates.. In this century, no Rcpub lican has been elected Prusi , dent without winning both , New York and California, No candidate of either major par ty has made it to the White House "while losing both of these states. Only two Democrats have been elected to the presidency with California and New York split. In both cases New .York gave its vote to favorite- i son governors-Charles Evans ' Hughes in 1916 and Thomas ' E. Dewey in 1948. California was with the , winners-Woodrow Wilson and Harry S. Truman. New York, often called the . melting pot of the world, and ! California, the melting pot of the nation, seldom go separ- ate ways in presidential elec tion years. What is the outlook in 1960 . In these critical states? Too close for either candidate to : consider himself safe. Both Kennedy and Nixon have had party troubles in both states. Kennedy may be suffering the most. California Democrats split down the middle between Kennedy and Adlal E. Steven son as presidential prospects. Kennedy later drafted Steven son to stump the state' and try to heal wounds inflicted at the ' Democratic national Treasure Seekers Digging in Sands Of Pharoah's Tomb Cairo, IUPII Eighty men are burrowing through the sands of the valley of the kings after a haul of Pharoah treasure that may possibly have eluded grave robbers for more than 3,000 years. They may find nothing. They may find a few funerary ornaments. They may find a treasure to rival the vast wealth in the tomb of King Tutankhamen and enrich the culture of the world. But they will not find the mummy of Pharoah Seti I who founded the 19th dynasty (1345 B.C 1200 B. C). It was removed ages ago. convention. ' Stevenson has been pulling greater crowdsthan Kennedy in California. In New York, liberal Demo crats who once backed Stev enson refused to work through regular party machinery and separate campaign organiza tions had to be created. Want Word on Adlai Stevenson supporters in both states appear to be look ing for some word from Ken ncdy on how Stevenson would be used if the Democrats re capture the White House. Nixon also is not finding the two slates full of milk and honey. In his home territory of California, the Republican or ganization was shattered by ballot-box defeats in 1958 Nixon forces picked up the pieces. But the state is un predictable and has shown a strong liberal, independent trend, Nixon has even summoned an out-of-state Republican -New York Gov. Nelson A Rockefeller - to help him in California. But Nixon Is counting on Rockefeller even more heavi ly in New York slate. Party problems there ', have been smoothed over since the fam ous Nixon Rockefeller com pact on the GOP platform was approved. Nonetheless, Ken nedy has been reported run ning unusually strong in nor mally Republican upstate New York. The old saying, as Maine goes, so goes the nation, never contained much political truth. But as California and New York go' this year, chances are the election will go that way, loo. The 80 men, with the sup port of the Egyptian Antiqui ties department, are digging into a shaft under the 3,300-year-old tomb which is close to King Tut's tomb discovered in 1922. Seti's tomb was first opened for scientific purposes early in -the 19th century by Gio vanni Battista Bclzone, one of the pioneer Egyptologists. It was named "Belzoni's Tomb" after him,' He penetrated to the burial chamber and its shrine rooms but found the grave robbers who for centuries had plun dered tombs in the valley had been there long before him. But many archaeologists were convinced that, as many other Pharoahs did - to foil tomb robbers, Seti built false shafts and perhaps secret rooms hiding the funerary treasure which the ancients believed a King's soul needed in eternity. Last summer, the United Arab Republic began excava tions at the tomb site at Lux or, where the ancient capital of Thebes flourished on the west bank of the Nile. Six weeks ago, Aly Andel Rasoul, 50, whose family has been guiding tourists through the royal graveyard for gen erations, gave the government some "hitherto unknown" in formation. Rasoul offered to pay for the cost of excavations himself. Excavators uncovered stairs in the sand, leading down from a shaft below the tomb Drooer. Hopes soared. Rubble is being cleared away at the rate of nine feet a day. Dozens of similar openings have turned out to be blind alleys. But Rasoul's knowl edge was spurring on the dig gers. Some stone carvings nave been found: not many, but enough to give hope. . Even if the work proves fruitless, the search undoubt edly' will go on. There al ways is a chance that some day somewhere in the Valley of Kings, an arcnaeoiogisi will re-live the electric mo ment in 1922 when Howard Carter pried loose a stone block and found himself star ing at a never-disturbed wall of solid gold in the tomb of King Tut. Kennedy's Campaign Group Stresses Candidate's Identity Washington (CQ) The Presidential campaign organi zation of Sen. John F. Ken nedy emphasizes in tune with his entire campaign Kennedy's identity with the Democratic party. The party tone of the Ken nedy operation contrasts with non-party, individual appeal of Richard M. Nixons cam paign. Following Kennedy's nom ination July 12 at the Demo cratic National Convention in Los Angeles, "Kennedy men" moved quickly to take over the operations of the Demo cratic ' National Committee. National committee staff members were not fired, but they found Kennedy organiza tion men installed in their of fices and charged with sub stative responsibility for op erations. Kennedy's hand picked candidate, Sen. Henry M. Jackson (Wash.), was pick ed as ' the new Democratic National Chairman. Men Running Committee Among the important Ken nedy men now running the committee are Robert F. Ken nedy,, the Senator's brother, who acts as national cam paign manager; Lawrence F. O'Brien of Springfield, Mass., director of organization; P. Kenneth O'Donnell, former as sistant to Robert Kennedy on the McClellan Senate rackets committee, who directs' sched ules and itineraries; and Stephen E. Smith, Kennedy's brother - in - law, who is i n charge of fund raising and fi nancing. The Kennedy forces have been anxious to avoid what they felt was a serious error of past Democratic campaigns a campaign organization working independently and sometimes at cross-purposes with the national committee. Through elimination of du plicated effort and through fully coordinated campaign efforts making use of Ken nedy representatives from the top management of the na tional committee all the way down into the states the Kennedy organization hopes to capitalize on normal Dem ocratic registration leads and local Democratic, organiza tions. Oui-oi-Staie Coordinators In a unique departure in campaign organization, indi vidual Kennedy-Johnson "co ordinators" have been ap pointed for most states. These are men whose prime loyalty is to the Kennedy organiza tion rather than to Democrat ic state or local committees, and in almost all cases they are out-of-staters. The theory is that out-of-staters can get quick action during the cam paign because they pose no long-term threat to the au thority of established party leaders In the states. The coordinators are di rectly responsible to Kennedy! ent Society" and brain trust- headquarters in Washington. to which they report frequent ly by phone and at least once a week in writing on all phases of the Kennedy-John-' son campaign in their assign ed areas. Examples of Ken nedy coordinators are William Walton, Washington artist, former newspaperman and close friend of Kennedy's, who is coordinator for New York City, and Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy, the Senator's brother,, 'who coordinates campaign efforts in California. With the party apparatus fully coordinated into his own campaign, Kennedy can cam paign for President as the chief of the Democratic Party in a country which now- votes normally Democratic. Policy Advisers Kennedy's principal policy adviser and speech writer is Theodore C. Sorenson, a young Nebraska lawyer who joined Kennedy in 1953. Be fore proposed speech texts are forwarded to Kennedy, they are usually approved both by Sorenson and by Har vard professor Archibald Cox, coordinator of Kennedy's speech writers and academic brain trust. Among important brain trust members who assist in speech preparation are J. Kenneth Galbraith of Har vard, author of "The Afflu- er f o r Adlai Stevenson in 1952 and 1956; Arthur Schlcs inger Jr., Harvard history professor and former Stev enson brain truster; and Wil liam Cochrane of the Uni versity of Minnesota, Kenne dy's principal agriculture ad-, viser. Other Kennedy speech writ ers include Richard Goodwin, Boston lawyer and Kennedy staff member; William Carter Atwood, on leave from Look magazine; free-lance writers Joseph Kraft, Robert Yoakum and John Bartlow Martin; James Sundquist, former speech writer for N.Y. Gov. 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