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TUESDAY MORNING, JULY! 3', 1975 44 PAGES 15c PER XJ COPY 7Sc WEEKLY BY CARRIER She NEWS on Pla jl ctl.k Knowledge Of Illegal End of A Hearings i ij i 7CJ fifty Ai Birthday Baby Mr. and Mrs. John Aforismo, whose mothers shared the same Hartford Hospital room when they were born 24 years ago, beam over their own baby, Marci Lynn, who was born Saturday on her mother's birthday and just a few hours before her father's. See story on Page 29 (Courant Photo by Anthony Bacewicz). -I? in 24 Are Injured In Crash of Bus MIRAMAR.

Fla. (AP) -Twenty children and four adults were injured when a Miami-bound charter bus overturned on the Florida Turnpike Monday during a heavy rain storm, officials said. One of the adults was admitted to the intensive care unit of Parkway General Hospital in Miami, a hospital spokesman said, but the 16 children who were taken to that hospital were treated and released. The bus, with 36 people aboard, was headed back to Miami after an all-day sightseeing excursion to West Palm Beach, officials said. FHA Halts Mortgages WASHINGTON (UPI) The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Monday ordered its field offices to suspend issuing home mortgages.

The suspension applies to housing, apartment and office projects as well as to Title I loans, the FHA said. The FHA said it was out of business because Congress failed to renew the National Housing Act, which expired Saturday at the end of fiscal 1973. N-Test Protest Eyed WELLINGTON, New Zealand (UPI) Prime Minister Norman Kirk said Monday New Zealand was considering a protest against the United States' latest underground nu clear test at the Nevada test area. "The matter is being considered at the moment," Kirk told a news conference. Kirk, who said he had accepted an invitation from the White House to visit President Nixon, also criticized the waste of money in nuclear testing.

Copter Down, 4 Saved HONOLULU (UPI) A U.S. Marine helicopter made a forced landing in waters 10 miles southeast of the North Vietnamese port of Vinh while flying an aerial minesweeping mission, the U.S. Pacific Military Command said Monday. All four crewmembers of the CH53 aircraft were rescued uninjured from the water, the headquarters of Adm. Noel Gayler, commander-in-chief of U.S.

Forces Pacific, said. Bridge Collapse Kills 3 SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -A bridge in a small southern Brazil city collapsed while it was being inaugurated, killing three persons and injuring about 20, according to reports reaching here Monday. The reports said the bridge 150 feet long and 50 feet high failed to support the weight of two busloads of persons arriving for the inauguration Sunday. The bridge spanned a river at Cascavel on the highway from Matelandia to Curitaba, capital of Parana state. Survey Shows Prices Slowing Courant Photo by Jerry Williams The children who filed out of their buses on the sunny, hot day into Batterson Park in Farmington for opening ceremonies and registration, were greeted with ice cream donated by the Sealtest Corp.

Given a choice of activities, some of the children selected the arts and crafts, some sewing and some woodworking. Many projects were started. Others chose to use either the wading or swimming pools, both of which were said to be in "beautiful condition." Bathing suits were provided by the camp. Softball and basketball were played by some, and two leagues are planned for each sport. Dodgeball and checkers also were featured at the camp, which had its beginnings before the turn of the century when The Courant sponsored outings for families.

The paper rented a few acres at a site on Park Road in West Hartford in 1911 for the camp. It moved to Farmington in 1963. Later this summer, dancer Jane Hart will entertain the camp's children. Beating the Heat unavailable in the June 1-July 1 survey. Camp Courant Opens Season Acts Denied Simpson Rebuts Courant Claims State Personnel Commissioner Edward H.

Simpson Monday denied "any knowledge of the il legal acts" reported by The Courant. In a copyrighted article Sun day, The Courant disclosed that hundreds of state employes were hired in violation of the law and hundreds more added to the state payroll on the basis of favoritism or politics. The newspaper clamed that these violations, in many cases, were approved by Simpson. "I deny any knowledge cf any illegal acts," Simpson said Mon day. "The appointments involved are within the provisions of the merit system," he added.

The commissioner said the newspaper dealt "in broad statements." He implied that the reporter did not fully under stand the complexities of the merit system. Simpson explained that it takes us four to six months to go through the process of exam ination." The Courant articles de scribed violations of the State Personnel Act, which dictates methods of hiring and promoting state employes. Most of the violations Involved favored treatment of provisional employes by keeping them in jobs for which they did not qual ify. This violates the law when other persons who are eligible for these jobs are not hired. 2 White Doves Sign of Peace SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.

(UPI) Two white doves classic symbols of peace were born on the patio of LaCasa Pacifica during the summit meeting between President Nixon and Soviet Communist party leader Leonid I. Brezhnev. Aides said Monday that First Lady Pat Nixon took a peek at the doves born last week in the atrium of the presidential estate. Brezhnev and Nixon conferred at Nixon's home from June 22 until June 24. Declaration Of Disaster Area Asked MONTPELIER, Vt.

(UPI) -The governors of Vermont and New Hampshire asked President Nixon Monday to declare the flood-ravaged states a disaster area. Seven persons died as a result of the weekend flooding which caused at least $13 million damage in the two states. About 1,000 persons are homeless. As the rampaging rivers began receding, Gov. Thomas P.

Salmon of Vermont said, "The biggest problems are over. "We've made a remarkable effort to restore travel on all major 98 per cent over the hill now," Salmon said. Salmon and New Hampshire Gov, Meldrim Thomson Jr. asked the President to declare the two states a disaster area so that residents would be eligible for federal assistance. The flooding, triggered by torrential rains, caused at least $10 million damage in Vermont and $3 million in New Hampshire.

The exact damage totals won't be known for several days. Some roads and communities in both states were still under water Monday though the rivers and streams were receding. In New Hampshire, health officials warned about drinking from wells that were flooded. "Sewage collection systems are being overtaxed, and there's a possibility of contamination of the water supply," said New Hampshire Public Health Di rector Lowell Wiese. Thomson called New Hamp shire officials to his office Monday to report on the damages.

Highway Comrnis- See DECLARING, Pg. 29, Col. 2 Group's Suit Challenges Voting Bar By THOMAS D. WILLIAMS A group of Trumbull residents, claiming a state law barring absentee ballots in referendum elections is unconstitutional, is suing four town officials. The lawsuit, filed recently in U.S.

District Court in New Haven, challenges the town's handling of $2,425,000 in funds earmarked for a library, golf course and other recreational facilities. In addition, the legal action complains town officials refused to allow Ralph Okrepkie and Carlo Fabbozzi, two of the resi dents, access to last year's budget records. Not Allowed Connecticut statutes don't allow absentee ballots to be used in elections in which no public offices are at stake. Two other Trumbull residents involved in the suit, Mary S. Whalen and Marie Velgot, say they are permanent absentee To Discuss Watergate In August SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.

(AP) President Nixon will speak out about the Watergat8 scandal when the Senate Water-gate committee completes the current phase of its probe, probably early in August, the White House said Monday, But Nixon will not appear before the committee because of the prerogatives of the executive branch nor meet informally with any of its members, a White House spokesman said. Top committee members have said they would like the President to come before their panel. The spokesman repeated earlier statements that on constitutional grounds the President would not appear before the federal grand jury investigating the Watergate affair. Method Unsettled Exactly how Nixon intends to comment on the Watergate scandal still has not been deter, mined, press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said.

The presidential spokesman said he could not be specific as to how soon after the Watergate phase of the hearings ends that Nixon would speak out. Ziegler ruled out any press conference until that time and continued to decline comment on the testimony of former White House counsel John W. Dean III or any other witness. When asked if special presidential counsel J. Fred Buz-hardt was representing the White House position when in a recent interview he described Dean as "a confessed felon," Ziegler said that he was speaking "as counsel for the White House." Nixon Unaware Ziegler said that Nixon was not aware of the statement by Buzhardt before it was made.

Ziegler said "the President will not appear before the com mittee and will not respond to a specific request to appear in such a forum to discuss the matter because he feels he has the responsibility to maintain the prerogatives of the executive branch." And Ziegler reiterated that the President will not appear before the Watergate grand jury, 'repeating the White House contention that such an appearance would be constitutionally inappropriate. Ziegler's announcement that Nixon will speak out on Watergate after the congressional committee recesses in August was the first time that the See NIXON, Page 29, Col. 4 now televises Sunday services from the Glendale church. The Faith Center in Glendale operates several television and radio stations in California, as well as Channel 18. Channel 18 programming is approximately 60 per cent secular and 40 per cent religious.

William C. Finley, Channel 18 general manager, says the merger will help the station provide a church affiliation for television viewers who don't belong to a church. "They often look to us for referrals," he said in an interview Monday. The Gospel Tabernacle is a fundamentalist evangelical church with an official membership of 167. The basic conservative Christian message provided by the church and the station is almost identical, both sides agree, "We believe that the Bible says what it means and means what it says," explained the See COMXL, Page 13, Col.

i voters because illness prevents 'en by Connecticut magazine, them from traveling to the! "Can a woman be elected polls. Mrs. Velgot says she can-governor?" Peter D. Hart Re- By ASSOCIATED PRESS The price spiral showed signs of slowing during June, accord ing to an Associated Press marketbasket survey, but scattered increases in the cost of staples such as butter and eggs continued to pinch the pocket- book. The AP checked the prices of 15 food and nonfood items in 13 cities on March 1 and has re-checked them each month.

The latest survey found that in line with the 60-day price controls announced by President Nixon on June 13 fewer items went up in cost during the month of June than during the preceding three months. Findings In each of the first three survey months, at least 30 per cent of the items checked went up in price. Comparing March 1 to June 1, the survey found 35.4 per cent of the items checked went up in price; from June 1 to July 1, 21 per cent were up. Other survey findings included: 41.5 per cent of the items were unchanged from March 1 to June 1, and 56 per cent were unchanged from June 1 to July 20.5 per cent went down in price during the first three months, and 17 per cent decreased during June. In addition.

2.6 per cent of the total number of items were unavailable on one of the check dates in the March 1-June 1 comparison; 6 per cent were mier home in the village of New Washington in north-central Ohio. Mrs. Niedermicr and five of her children were held captive, police said, but a sixth child escaped unnoticed and notified police from a neighbor's telephone. A highway patrol spokesman gave this account of the capture: Fullenkamp, commander of the Bucyrus patrol district, crouched behind a tree at the Niedermicr home to try to talk the holed-up convicts into surrender. He noticed five children peering out an upstairs bedroom, apparently unguarded.

Fullenkamp climbed up a television antenna tower and crawled through the window into the bedroom containing the Niedermier children. One by one, he dropped them to the ground without injury. Then. Fullenkamp charged into the front bedroom where Today Chuckle In this day and time, it takes nerves of steel just to be a neurotic. There was no indication that the increase in the number of unavailable items was due to any food shortage, despite re cent reports of cutbacks by See SURVEY, Pg.

29, Col. 1 Confidence In Controls Held Low WASHINGTON (AP) A government consumer specialist' said Monday consumers don't believe the Nixon Administration can restrain inflation and predicted failure for the price-control program unless consumers can be made to support it. "I am inclined to believe that unless some impressive over tures are made to enlist the support of the average citizen, the program will fail," said Kay Ryan, consumer counsel to the Cost of Living Council. Ms. Ryan spoke at a hearfng, called by the council's Food Advisory Committee, into food price problems and how they should be handled in the government's proposed new Phase 4 controls program.

Ms. Ryan said most con-See PUBLIC, Page 29, Col. 2 the escaped convicts held Mrs. Niedermicr hostage. One convict whirled with a rifle.

Fullenkamp slapped the gun from his hands. The convict jerked out a hand gun. Fullenkamp's right hand knocked that firearm against a wall. Fullenkamp then overpowered one of the convicts and the second did not offer resistance, police said. About that time other police officers stormed up the stairs and into the room.

Seven hours earlier, about 4:30 a.m. EST, police said Hershberger and Osborn walked away in heavy fog from the dairy barn at the state prison at Marion. Police said that after making their escape, the convicts hid in a garage at the home of Paul Cluff in Marion, waited until he went to work and then entered the house. They tied up Cluff's See SIX, Page 29, Col. 4 Bill Barry Volkswagen, New Si Used cars, service, 470 New Park Ave, W.

Htfd, 236-0866. By Nimble Patrolman Birdhouses, shoeshine boxes and banks made of popsicle sticks were some of the objects being created by 5 to 12-year-old children as Camp Courant began its 62nd year Monday. The eight-week day camp is designed to give the city nn- derprivileged children good food and a place to play under super vision. Poll Picks Grasso for Governor By JACK ZAIMAN U.S. Rep.

Ella T. Grasso of Windsor Locks would defeat Gov. Meskill by a large margin if the state election for governor was held today, according to a professional poll tak- search Associates Inc. of Washington asked 906 Connecticut residents in so-called "in-home interviews" from May 11 to 23. The answer was a resounding "yes." Mrs.

Grasso received 44 per cent to Meskill's 34 per cent in the poll. Nineteen per cent were undecided, and 3 per cent said they wouldn't vote. Secretary of the State Gloria Schaffer ran almost even with Meskill in the poll. She received 38 per cent to the governor's 39 per cent, with 19 per cent undecided. Four per cent said they wouldn't vote.

"The number of male chauvinists in Connecticut is declining," the magazine said in its July-August issue distributed Monday. "The majority of people 17 and older now believe it would make no difference whether a man or woman holds the office of governor," the magazine said. The poll said "major resistance" to a woman for governor is coming "primarily" from women. About 60 per cent of men interviewed said it would make no difference to them if a woman is governor, cut only 47 per In a Grasso-Meskill contest, 41 per cent of men interviewed voted for Mrs. Grasso with 37 1 See POLL, Page 29, Col.

3 Six Hostages Rescued City Tabernacle, Center Merge not even raise her arm to pull the voting machine's lever. Both women claim they were deprived of their right to vote in a May 15 referendum on $725,000 in funds appropriated by the town council for the golf course. Two other interested residents, Anton Cornell and Silvio Percivalle, complain they See RESIDENTS, Pg. 13, Col. 7 Inside Story Connecticut News Briefs.

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Page 3. Nixon "vote buy" hit by NAACP official. Page 29. Russian affection for U.S. said boosted by Brezhnev visit.

Page 30. Rescued motorist to ask papal blessing for Good Samaritans. Page 25. Page Page Amuse. 11-13 Later Years 20 Ann Landers 6 Legals 30 NEW WASHINGTON, Ohio (AP) A towering Ohio highway patrolman nimbly climbed into the upstairs of a besieged home Monday where he rescued a mother and her five children from two escaped convicts, police said.

The one-man invasion by Capt. J. J. Fullenkamp, a 6-foot-6, 280-pounder who is the father of nine children, culminated when he overpowered one of the convicts, who was armed with a rifle and a pistol, police said. They said the second man was captured without resistance.

The capture ended a 59-mile chase that had begun with a prison escape and in which a deputy sheriff was killed when his car collided with a truck. The arrested men were identified as Robert T. Hershber-ger, 31, of Akron and Richard W. Osborn, 31, of Newark, Ohio. Police said the capture came after the two convicts had shaken pursuing police and walked into the Thomas Nieder- When you think Ford, think Calia Ford.

722 Wcthersficld Hartfcrd. Advt. Bv LAURENCE COHEN I The Hartford Gospel Tabernacle, an Assemblies of God church at 846 Prospect has merged with Faith Center of Glendale, owners of WHCT-TV (Channel 18) in Hartford. The tabernacle will be renamed the Faith Center Hartford, and its $300,000 in assets will be surrendered to the par ent group, Faith Center Global Ministries of Glendale. The local church also has dropped its official affiliation with the Assemblies of God.

Officials from the tabernacle and Channel 18 say the merger will prompt development of a major center for conservative Christian groups in New Eng land. Plans also call for televising Sunday night services from the Hartford church. Channel 18 The Place to buy your Volvo, Mitchell, Simsbury. Advt. I Bridge 6 Newmgton 1JJ jeent of the women interviewed City News 15 Obituaries 4 said it would make no diffcr-Classified 30-44 Society 9iPnrp to thorn.

Comics Crossword Editorials Family Doctor Star Gazer 20 Television 6 Towns 14, 16, 20 W. Hartford 18. 19pcr cent going t0 Gov. Meskill. Twenty per cent were undecid-l 5 Worn.

Pg. 10 1 I Fern. Topics Financial 25-28.