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A-10 THE NEWS, Frederick, Maryland Monday. May 27, IMS I White House Race Nominees Head West By GAYLORD SHAW -Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON CAP) Just ai'prospectors followed the setting sun a hundred years ago in of gold, presidential candidates are heading westward in quest of a prize they cherish more than any mother lode. The campaign for the presidency rumbled from Indiana into the flatlands of Nebraska. Ahead lie Oregon and California, way stations on a tr.ail left wide open by President Johnson's surprise renunciation of a re-election bid. an immense spectacle, the making of a nominee this year has an added element: A testing of the mystique that Kennedys don't lose.

Sen. Robert F. Kennedy won the Democratic primaries in Indiana and Nebraska, but Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy's res pectable showing dampened the hopes of Kennedy backers that Indiana would start a prairie fire sweep toward nomination at the Chicago convention three months from now.

That leaves the Oregon primary May 28 and the California primary June 4 as crucial testing grounds for Kennedy and McCarthy forces. Then, after the clamor of the primaries subsides, the two candidates will encounter Humphrey. Because of his late entry, Humphrey's name isn't on any primary ballots. He is concentrating instead on maintaining the delegate strength inherited from Johnson and trying to harvest convention votes in nonpri- mary states. While tine Democrats do battle in public, two Republican candidates are locked in a strangely silent struggle for the support of governors, senators and other political leaders--men who control the irtilk of the GOP convention delegates.

There are no bands and no bunting, only a few carefully crafted speeches in this largely subterranean maneuvering. For front runner Richard M. Nixon, it takes the form of a leisurely luncheon in Nevada's white-columned executive man- with Gov. Paul Laxalt, whose state has 12 convention Votes. -For late starter Nelson A.

Rockefeller, it is a private dinner at a red brick hotel in Des Moines with 16 of Iowa's 24 delegates. And for the field forces of botfo candidates at is hundreds of telephone calls and personal cfiats--even a cross-country trip in a chartered orange jet--to renew old friendships, to make new contacts, to persuade, to plead. Nixon, left without open opposition in the primaries when Gov. George Romney of Michigan withdrew Fefo 28, piled up an impressive vote total--more than a half-million--in Indiana where his was the only name on the Jlepubhcan ballot. Rockefeller said Nixon's vote shows "I've got a stiff, uphill fight." The former vice president is given a large margin over in delegate strength, but the millionaire New York governor scored a startling write-in victory over a favorite son in the Massachusetts primary the day he announced, after months of indecision, that he was in the race.

Of the 550 GOP delegates already selected, an Associated Press tabulation shows Nixon has 168 pledges and Rockefeller 46. Another 143 convention votes are pledged to favorite sons and 193 votes are uncommitted. It takes 667 convention votes for the nomination. On the Democratic side, with 666 delegates already picked, McCarthy has nailed down 163 convention votes from four primary states. Humphrey has votes, and Kennedy has 25 with Indiana's votes yet to be distributed.

Favorite sons and others hold 154 votes while 253V2 votes are uncommitted. Nomination takes 1,312 votes. In a survey published a day before the Indiana election, pollster Louis Harris reported Kennedy had suffered a sharp decline in his standing with the voters. He is the only Democrat to trail Nixon, Harris said, and has fallen behind Humphrey as the preferred choice among Democrats. In another poll, released last week, Harris tagged Rockefeller a the strongest potential GOP nominee.

While competition for GOP delegate pledges is intense, the public pace of the contenders- Nixon is rarely on the road more than three days at a stretch and Rockefeller always returns home on weekends-seems placid compared with the hectic Democratic Campaign Both Kennedy and McCarthy flashed the for victory sign to their massed supporters election night in Indiana. But long after the last ballot had been counted professional politicians were still debating who was tine real winner. "I'm very, very pleased," Kennedy said. "To come here under these circumstances, to be able to do this well is very SUPPORT SAVINGS PROGRAM Specialist Five Richard L. Davis, USASTRATCOM East Coast Telecommunications Center, Fort Detrick, while serving in Europe saved enough to purchase $1,500 in U.S.

Series Savings Bonds Discussing the investment with Davis is LTC John E. Mitchell, Commanding Officer of the Telecommunications Center Davis' original deposit and interest acquired while supporting the President's effort to curb spending abroad, enabled him to reinvest his earnings upon return to the United States encouraging." McCarthy actually finished third with 27 per cent of the vote, behind the 31 per cent won by runner-up Gov. Roger Branigan, running as a favorite son. Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield offered this assessment of the Indiana results: "Kennedy, in winning the Democratic primary, got his campaign off the ground and running, McCarthy, in running up his impressive total, maintained his steady momentum; and Nixon, in polling over one- half million votes, made a very impressive showing Kennedy plunged into the presidential campaign on March 16, four days after McCarthy fought Johnson to a standoff in the New Hampshire primary. After making his announcement from the same spot in an ornate Senate caucus room where his brother John had opened his bid for the presidency eight years earlier, the New York senator quickly blazed a campaign trail through two dozen states.

Then he focused on Indiana, his first test as a vote-getter. His bushy auburn hair trimmed and his speeches tai-j lored for more conservative lis-' teners, Kennedy saturated the state with organizers, relatives and big-name friends. On street corners, in high school gyms and at suburban shopping centers, the crowds were always there when Kennedy arrived. Advance men spent one to three days making sure of that--Jbuying newspaper, radio and television advertisements and tacking signs on telephone poles reading: "Sen Robert F. Kennedy will pass this point at 5 p.m.

Wednesday." Teen-age girls--and their mothers--jumped up and down arid screamed as the Kennedy motorcade whizzed by. Lilacs showered down on the entourage in one city. In another, an overexuberant fan grabbed Kennedy's hand, jerking the candidate from a slowly moving convertible onto the pavement and leaving him with a bruised lip er.d a chipped front tooth. Kennedy's young Senate aides, some of them with hair a trifle longer than their boss, joined such seasoned pros as Lawrence F. O'Brien, Kenneth O'Donald, Ted Sorenson and Pierre Salinger in engineering the well-financed blitz that overpowered McCarthy's low key campaign.

Thousands of college students, some of them not old enough to vote and a few of them hippies who shaved their beards and adopted the motto "Get Clean for Gene," had trudged with McCarthy through snow-cloaked New Hampshire villages, and then across frozen Wisconsin, where the Minnesota senator defeated President Johnson. They streamed into Indiana to help the former professor. But their door-to-door canvassing that brought a moral victory in New Hampshire and an actual victory in Wisconsin couldn't dent Kennedy's margin 'in Negro and blue collar neighborhoods. Both Kennedy and McCarthy were robbed of their two prime campaign targets by Johnson's withdrawal--announced before the Wisconsin primary--and tihe movement toward Vietnam peace talks. The Indiana primary was almost devoid of national issues.

Much of it centered on the money Kennedy poured into his campaign "I just got wlvpped," Bramgin grumbled a day after the election "I wrote my own speeches, drove my own car but you can't beat $2 million." That was the amount State Democratic Chairman Gordon St Angelo accused Kennedy of spending. Kennedy replied his Indiana campaign had cost from $560,000 to $600,000. Humphrey entered the presidential campaign bilMng himself ao a man of maturity and experience who could unite a divided nation. His strategy is to hold on to the delegate pledges he has and pursue new ones in nonprimary states while awaiting the outcome of the Kennedy-McCarthy battles. The son of a South Dakota druggist, he hopped from Chicago's Polish and Jewish neighborhoods one day to a swank Manhattan restaurant the next.

There, as they munched ham sandwiches and drank draft beer, New York businessmen pledged thousands of dollars to Humphrey's campaign fund. Before or after every campaign appearance, Humphrey and his lieutenants seek out Democratic leaders and in private conferences make a pitch for the delegates these men control. In Chicago, for example, Humphrey huddled with Mayor Richard Daley, the man most likely to decide who gets Illinois support. Besides Illinois, the vice president is paying special attentMi to four other delegate- rich states: New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan. Rockefeller's belated entry t'mto foe Republican race has increased the likelihood that the GOP convention in Miami Beach Aug.

5 will drone through more than one roll call before settling on a nominee. This hasn't happened since 1948, when Thomas Dewey won the nomination on the third ballot. Nixon, who narrowly lost to John F. Kennedy in 1960, predicts no one--himself included-will have the nomination locked up before the convention opens. A multiballot convention fits perfectly into the strategy of those backing Gov iRonald Reagan of California for president.

The former actor's chances of landing a spot on the national ticket hinge on a Nixon-Rockefeller deadlock, they say. Reagan insists publicly he's not seeking the nomination, but there are subtle signs of a changing attitude in the paneled office suite beneath the California capitol's golden dome. One incident provides an illustration: A Reagan aide, after issuing another denial (No, he said, the governor is not running for president) turned to a reporter and, in an asiue, grinned: "It's hard to keep a straight face." Veteran Republican politi cians say they can't recall a time when delegates were so skittish about an early commitment. "Very little is set in cement," said Leonard Hall, former GOP National chairman who headed Romney's campaign and now is helping Rockefeller. "I've never seen it like this--quite so fluid Nixon, arriving in Cheyenne, Wyo one windy Sunday morn ing, explained why.

"The Republican party went through a pretty traumatic experience in 1964," he said, referring to the bitter campaign preceding the nomination of Barry Goldwater. "There was some pretty persuasive arm twisting by all sides that year to get people to commit themselves." This year, he said, party leaders throughout the country want to "remain uncommitted until they get to Miami." Complicating the political guessing is George Wallace's third party movement. As Wallace qualifies in more and more states for a spot on the November ballot, politicians heatedly debate which party he would hurt worse. They can't seem to reach a consensus, but they are uniformly worried that Wallace could prevent any candidate from getting a majority in the electoral college, thus throwing the election into the House of Representatives for the first time in 144 years. House Republican Leader Gerald R.

Ford sees "a 50-50 possibility" of this happening. Pollster George Gallup, in a survey released last week, reported "a Lurleen, who succeeded him as 'governor of Alabama, caused strong possibility" of such a deadlock. The death of Wallace's wife, Wallace to suspend his campaign. Wallace has pitched his effort at what he calls "the little people the waitresses, bellhops, policemen, cab drivers." And the staunch segregationist, once Alabama's best 135- pound Golden Glove boxer, fvjf PRESCRIPTIONS FREE PICK-UP and DELIVERY North Market Street Store MO 2-2782 Frederick Shopping Center Store MO 2-5888 Prospect Shopping Center Store MO 3-4861 EOPLES SERVICE )RUG STORES flails the Democratic and Republican candidates alike. "There's not a dime's worth of difference between them," he says.

Jaycees Pay Tribute To Ex-Leaders The annual Past President's banquet of the Frederick Jaycees was held recently at the Red Horse Steak House. Recognizing his capable leadership in the past year, the Jaycees paid tribute to out-going president, Jacob R. Ramsburg Jr. The president-elect, Richard C. Brady, and the board of directors were sworn into office by president-elect of the Maryland Jaycees, A.R.

"Skip" Carey, of Towson. The new board includes Internal Vice President Meredith L. Kinna, External Vice President Gene R. Clements, State Director Robert E. Smariga, Treasurer Walter W.

Kirk Past President Jacob R. Ramsburg and Directors Richard K. Betson, Harold E. Buhrman, Joseph C. Free, Thomas C.

Grunwell, Carroll F. Leatherman Harold L. Lenhart, William C. Summers, and W. Henry Winders.

Mrs. Dolphis H. Morris, retiring president of the Jaycee Wives, presented their new of- PROMOTED Charles G. Drasser, son Mr. and Mrs.

Charles A. Drasser of New Hyde Park, N.Y., has recently been promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Ataching his new silver bars are (left) Lt. Col.

E. A. Lloyd, deputy commander of Fort Detrick, and Edgar W. Larson, chief of Applied Aerobiology Division in the Aerobiology and Evaluiaton Laboratory, Fort Detrick. Lt.

Drasser was assigned to Fort Detrick in August 1967 where he serves as a Research and Development Coordinator. Prior to coming to the U.S. Army Biological Laboratories, he attended a Chemical Officer Basic Course at Fort McClellan, Ala. Drasser is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Military College, where he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in biology in Ifi65. Before entering active duty he was employed at Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn.

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Kinna received the Jaycee of the Year award. Director of the Year was awarded to W. Winders. The Project of the Year was named as the Hallowe'en Parade, chaired by Robert E. Smariga.

The best internal and external committees were, respectively, Jaycee Radio Day, chaired by Robert L. Watson, and Shooting Education, chaired by Eugene A. Schoonover. President Ramsburg presented Presidential Awards of Honor to his two vice presidents, Richard C. Brady and Walter W.

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Bernard Callan were presented Exhausted Rooster certificates, as they have attained the maximum age limit of the organization. Twenty-six Jaycees were recognized as achieving the SPOKE and Spark Plug awards for their activities in the Chapter. Guests from other Jaycee chapters included Frank Welsh, Chairman of the Board of the Maryland Jaycees; Rodney Neidomanski, National Di- retor for Region Joseph Durick, District 1 Vice President; and Michael Kilpatric, External Vice President of the Maryland Jaycees. The evening's events concluded with a dance; the music provided by the Dave Baker Quartet. During intermission, the Catoctones Quartette presented several vocal selections.

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