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CONN. FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL 30. 1976- 76 PAGES Assembly Timetable Lags? Deficit Rears 0th Purported Hughes' Will Mysteriously Surfaces Off and Running Saints (Mormon), one of the listed beneficiaries. Copies were released at a news conference in Las Vegas Hughes' last U.S.

residence. Another spokesman for the church, which found the document, said Mormon leaders didn't know whether it was "a hoax or not." A handwriting expert said she thought the writing was genuine. In Los Angeles, a spokesman for Summa, the parent company for the Hughes holdings, said the document had several misspellings. He also noted the reference to the Spruce Goose. "At this point I can only say that Howard Hughes seldom misspelled words, that he didn't like the Hercules flying boat referred to as the 'Spruce Goose' and that William Lummis' name is incorrectly spelled," said the spokesman.

William R. Lummis, the son of Hughes' aunt in Houston, is mentioned as a beneficiary. The handwriting does not make the spelling clear since the second letter could be either an or a Clark County Probate Cqmmissioner Russell S. Waite said the next step is for the executor or his nominee to petition to probate the LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) -A handwritten document, yellowed with age and described as the will of the late Howard R.

Hughes, was turned over to a Nevada court Thursday, 24 days after the billionaire's death. But the document and the circumstances surrounding its discovery failed to clear up any of the mystery involved in the Hughes estate. There were immediate expressions of skepticism from officials of Hughes' Summa Corp. and indications of a long court fight ahead. According to the three-page document, the bulk of the estate estimated at up to $2.5 billion goes to medical research and charitable organizations.

Hughes' two former wives, his aides and other individuals will receive most of the rest. The Spruce Goose Hughes' all-wooden plane that was federally financed as a transport plane but made only one flight was given to the city of Long Beach, Calif. The document, signed with the name Howard R. Hughes, was given to the Clark County court clerk by Wilfred F. Kirton legal counsel for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day By IRENE DRISCOLL The General Assembly Thursday abandoned its self-imposed target of closing business today and worked into the night taking a step toward cutting off unemployment pay for those who quit jobs and adopting measures easing Sunday Blue laws.

While the lawmakers moved through scores of bills and closer to their constitutional adjournment deadline of Wednesday, Gov. Grasso announced her hopes for a "modest surplus" have turned back into a deficit she now forecasts at $1.5 million. The new deficit figure stems from a Thursday tax report showing the 7 per cent capital gains and dividends levy will bring in up to $3 million more than the $47.3 million estimated in the budget, but that will make the income less than some predicted. As they pushed into the evening, the legislators: Amended a technical unemployment bill to stop unemployment benefits to those who quit their jobs. The amended measure, which will come up again in the House today or early next week, was approved in the House 76 to 64 after narrow defeat of a proposal to also bar jobless pay to those who are fired.

Estimates of what the two categories of unemployed cost the state in jobless pay yearly range from $8 million to the $30 million quoted by Republicans who inspired the controversial amendment. -Ended the 1976 movement to repeal the Sunday Blue Laws, instead adopting a bill relaxing restrictions on Sunday sales and permitting smaller grocery and drug stores to remain open on Sunday. A companion measure was adopted and sent to the governor with the main Blue Law bill, exempting professional golf and tennis from a Blue Law ban. The issue arose when Hartford police several weeks ago during a police contract fight with the city See Assembly, Page 6 Prospective bettors fill the off-track betting parlor in monies took place (AP). West Haven Thursday morning shortly after opening cere- OTB, Off on Right Track, Draws $100,000 in Wagers At the Killingly parlor, the first bettor was an employe at the Plain-field dog track.

"I enjoy gambling," said John Mc-Issac, a Danielson resident who is "learning the business" in the dog track's racing department. An elderly woman at the parlor who adjusted her glasses to check the odds at Aqueduct said she was really a bingo player. A customer who identified himself as a "turf speculator" said the Connecticut OTB parlors were better than those in New York, where he said "there are no attendants to help you. Just cashiers behind bulletproof glass." At one of the two Bridgeport OTB See OTB, Page 6 in business suits. Some said they had never been to a horse race; others said they were inveterate track-goers.

"It's better here than with the bookies," said an uninformed policeman on duty at the Waterbury OTB parlor. "The people are better off. The bookies won't pay the high odds." "I don't know if I like it here," said one woman who hadn't taken curlers out of her hair for her visit to the OTB purlor in the New London Shopping Center. "I like to see the ponies run. I like the Narragan-sett track." At the Torrington parlor, tellers said the bets ranged from $2 to $100, with several persons buying 10 to 20 tickets.

By WILLIAM COCKERHAM Thousands of horse players wagered more than $100,000 Thursday as Connecticut's off-track-betting (OTB) system got off and running. "It was a good handle. It was better than our expectations," said Donald Drew, director of racing operations for the American Totalisator which has the contract for Connecticut's OTB system. Men and women were nearly equal in number as they stood in lines at the 11 OTB parlors that opened at 8 a.m. the state.

Bettors waited in lines sometimes 14 deep to bet on such entries as Much Mouse and Mocha Bear running at New York's Aqueduct Raceway. The bettors were young and old, some dressed in overalls and others Then there would be testimony on the validity of the document, a recommendation by Waite and a ruling from the district court. Waite said his personal opinion was that there probably is a will later than the document presented by the church. It was dated March 19, 1968, two years before Hughes left Las Vegas. He said he based that feel-See Purported, Page 6 Hatch Act Stands; Vote Fails WASHINGTON (AP) -The House Thursday failed to override President Ford's veto of a bill that would have allowed the nation's 2.8 million federal government workers to participate in political campaigns.

The vote was 243 to 160. It was 26 votes short of the two-thirds needed to override the veto. Ford has vetoed 48 bills. His vetoes have been overridden eight times. The bill would have significantly modified the 37-year-old Hatch Act ban against political campaigning by federal employes.

The law currently forbids federal workers from organizing fund-raising drives, going door to door, or otherwise aiding someone to get elected. In his veto April 12, Ford said the concerns expressed almost four decades ago when the Hatch Act was passed are still valid today "and the public business of our government must be conducted without the taint of partisan politics." Removal of the ban against political campaigning by federal workers, Ford said, "would be endangering the entire concept of employe independence and freedom from coercion which has been largely successful in preventing undue political influence in government programs or personnel management." The vetoed bill, now dead for this session of Congress, would not have affected this year's elections 'because it would not have been made law until Jan. 1. It would have permitted federal employes to run for local, state or federal office under any party label they wished. But it would have forbidden federal office supervisors or anybody with official powers from coercing employes into political activities or duties.

Explosion Hits Soviet Embassy Lobby Assails Weicker On Threat To Delay FEC Ex-Activist Is Married MILWAUKEE (AP) The Rev. James E. Groppi, a Roman Catholic priest who gained national attention in the 1960s for his civil rights protest marches, has been married in a civil ceremony. But Groppi, 45, says he and his bride both hope to remain in the Catholic Church. He said he has an appointment with Archbishop William Cousins of the Milwaukee archdiocese Monday to discuss his marriage and his status as a priest.

Asked if he expected excommunication, Groppi said, "I don't think that's possible. I am willing to submit to the church procedure." By ROBERT WATERS Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON Common Cause Thursday assailed Sen. Lowell P. Weicker, over his threat to filibuster the revised Federal Election Commission (FEC) bill. Fred Wertheimer, vice president of the public interest group, which calls itself the Citizens Lobby, called Weicker's move irresponsible.

In letters to senators Wednesday, Weicker said he would action on the FEC bill unless leaders MOSCOW (AP) The official news agency Tass said a strong explosion at the gates of the Soviet Embassy in Peking Thursday killed two Chinese guards but caused no Soviet casualties. The Yugoslav news agency Tanjug reported the explosion in Belgrade, but it said the two Chinese guards were severely injured, not killed, when the explosion threw them into the air. A duty officer at the U.S. liaison office in Peking, reached by telephone from Tokyo, said he had heard nothing about an explosion. "Everything around here is very quiet and there was nothing on the radio about an explosion at all," said the officer, who declined to give his name.

He said the Soviet Embassy is several miles from the U.S. office The Tass account said that while the Soviet Embassy suffered damage, "it was only by chance that there were no casualties among embassy staff." Tass said a protest was lodged with Chinese authorities "in connection with the incident." as numerous declarations of candidacy for the presidency. The Minnesota Democrat, who was his party's presidential nominee in 1968 and a candidate for the nomination in 1960 and 1972, left open the possibility he would accept the nomination if the convention in July should turn to him. But he described that possibility as remote. "I'm really not very optimistic," he said.

"I'm a realist about politics." Ortho lawn food 10.000 square fool $11.95. Shunpike Lumber Company. Rocky Hill It was the first Soviet claim since 1967 of physical acts against its establishments in Peking. In Tokyo, monitored broadcasts of the official Hsinhua news agency and Peking radio carried no word of the explosion and there were no reports from Japanese correspondents in Peking. The terse Tass account of the explosion said: "An explosion occurred today at the gates of the USSR Embassy in the PRC (People's Republic of China).

Two Chinese guards were killed. The embassy building suffered damage. It was only by chance that there were no casualties among embassy staff. "A protest was lodged with the Chinese authorities in connection with the incident." Tass did not say at what time the explosion occurred. In August 1967, the Soviet Foreign Ministry said Chinese demonstrators had broken into its Peking Embassy.

Tass said Red Guards also threw stones at the embassy building. Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter, whose victory in the Pennsylvania primary put pressure on Humphrey, said he had "mixed emotions" about the former vice president's decision. Carter told reporters in Albany, Ga he would rather have met with Humphrey first but said the decision will give him a chance "to pull the factions of the party back together." Carter's campaign manager, Hamilton Jordan said, "I think this takes us a long way toward winning the nomination." He said it may be "a turning point" in the campaign. Rep.

Morris K. Udall, described Humphrey's agree to pledge an all-out effort by July 4 for votes on three long-delayed pieces of post-Watergate legislation. One of the bills Weicker is pushing would create a new Senate intelligence committee. Debate on the bill is scheduled to start May 10. Another measure, which would set up an automatic method for appointing a special prosecutor in Watergate-type cases, has no floor debate timetable but is expected to be reported out of committee before July 4.

The third bill Weicker supports would establish tough Page Later Years 5 Legals 42, 43 Legislative News 28 Lifestyle 25-27 Obituaries 8 Sports 63-71 Star Gazer 20 Sydney Omarr 12 Television 31 Town News 36, 37, 40, 41 Bridge Leap Isn't Fatal SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A 20-year-old San Francisco woman survived a jump from the Golden Gate Bridge Thursday, the ninth person known to survive a plunge from the span. Lynn Gallen fell 210 feet into the chilly San Francisco Bay waters just near the South Tower, the California Highway Patrol said. She was picked up by a fishing boat and taken to the U.S. Army's Let-termen General Hospital. Humphrey slate.

President Ford, campaigning in Texas, said he thinks the only way Democrats can stop Carter's drive is in the smoke-filled rooms of a brokered convention "and I think the public would object to that." If Carter is the Democratic nominee, he said, it "will be a contest between a proven record on my part and a challenger without experience in the Oval Office." Of Humphrey's announcement. Ford said, "I wouldn't pass judgment on whether it was a wise decision. I think it was a practical one because Jimmy Carter gained some tremendous momentum in Pennsylvania." safeguards for privacy of income tar returns. It has little hope for early action. In the statement criticizing Weicker, Common Cause said the filibuster threatens the campaigns of most presidential candidates because FEC matching funds they are expecting will remain frozen until the new bill is enacted.

Wertheimer made no reference to Weicker's having said that he opposes public funding of political campaigns. Weicker could not be reached for comment. Sea Searched For Fisherman BOSTON (UPI) The Coast Guard started an air and sea search Thursday for the captain of a lobster boat believed to have fallen over-, board. Gale License of Hull, skipper of the Downeaster, is believed to have fallen overboard while working his lobster traps about 10 miles out from Boston harbor. A Coast Guard spokesman said the lobster boat ran aground on Little Brewster Island in Boston Harbor.

"We received a report that a boat had run aground. When we got there, there was a boat and its motor was still running. There was nobody aboard," he said. Today's Chuckle The trouble with good advice is that it usually interferes with our plans. Humphrey Refuses To Enter Race Inside Story U.S.

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decision as "a very big break for me." "I'm hoping that a lot of the kind of people who would support Humphrey will come to me," he said. Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, campaigning in Oregon, said the decision may help his own efforts. Despite Humphrey's announcement, James P. Dugan, Democratic state chairman for New Jersey, said he will push for an uncommitted slate of delegates that he considers to be a Eat out more often.

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Humphrey, the "happy warrior" of three unsuccessful presidential campaigns, announced Thursday he would not jump into the 1976 race. "I shall not enter the New Jersey primary nor shall I authorize any committee or committees to solicit funds or work in my behalf," Humphrey told a news conference. "I intend to run for reelection to the United States Senate from the state of Minnesota." Humphrey made his announcement in a jammed Senate caucus room, scene of the Senate Watergate Committee hearings as weli Page Amusements 31-35 Ann Landers 38 Bridge 62 Classified 43-61 Comics 72 Crossword 72 Editorials 22 Family Doctor 16 Feminine Topics 20 Financial 71, 73-75 Garden Page 30 Lacy 29.