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cahki yuc ote Democrats Is Illegal by declared. f'Sl ''isfW? ft Hi? 4, Connolly Is Top Choice For OOP's No. 2 Spot ing Reagan for vice president are Ford delegates. Most of the rest are uncommitted. By contrast, less than a third as many Reagan supporters 25 named Ford for vice president.

All of the mentions of Ford for the second spot came from Reagan delegates. Ford said Reagan has not been ruled out of contention- Highway Crash Injures No One road service. Brown, who had two passengers in his car, hit a small trailer loaded with lumber that was hitched to the disabled vehicle and drove right to the top of the station wagon before coming to rest, a witness said. Brown said the trailer had no lights, so he didn't see it (Courant Photo by Annan G. Hatsian).

The top station wagon, driven by 77-year old Bass Brown of Newark, N. right, crashed onto the bottom one during a rainstorm on southbound 1-91 at the Windsor-Hartford line shortly after 8 p.m. Wednesday. No one was injured in the accident, police said. The bottom car was parked at the highway's shoulder with a flat tire and the unidentified driver was at a service station arranging WASHINGTON (AP) -John B.

Connally is the top choice of Republican National Convention delegates for vice president, mainly because of strong support from those who favor Ronald Reagan for president. But delegates backing President Ford look more favorably on Reagan as Ford's running mate, or continuing the current lineup with Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller, than on Connally in the No. 2 spot, the continuing Associated Press survey of delegates found. Just over 60 per cent of the 1,982 delegates interviewed by the AP didn't express a choice for the vice-presidential nominee.

Traditionally, the convention has approved the choice of the presidential candidate for his running mate. But both Ford and Reagan have already indicated a willingness to consider allowing the convention to pick a running mate when it meets in Kansas City in mid-August. Of the 787 delegates who voiced a choice for vice president in the AP survey, 224 named Connally, the former Texas governor who served in the Nixon Administration. Of these 224, a computer analysis of the survey showed 71 per cent are pledged or publicly committed to Reagan. Only 29 delegates committed to Ford said they wanted Costs Pressure Inflation He said it "falls right into the forecast" that inflation this year would rise between 5.5 and 6 per cent.

Prices rose 7 per cent in 1975. Ford is counting on a strong economic recovery and an easing of inflation to improve his election chances in November. The price report followed Tuesday's announcement that economic growth slowed sharply this spring, with the nation's total output rising at less than half the rapid pace of last winter. The slowdown, while expected, was sharper than anticipated. The Labor Department report showed grocery prices, after climbing rapidly in April and May, rose only two-tenths of 1 per cent last month.

But this favorable news was offset by a 1.9 per By JACK AIM AN An official of the Democratic National Committee in Washington declared Wednesday that the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, by holding a secret ballot, acted illegally Monday night in re-electing State Chairman William A. O'Neill of East Hampton both as chairman and as a National Committee member. Maura McKenna, an assistant to national party Secretary Dorothy V. Bush, said, after a consultation with other National Committee officials, that "a secret ballot is not legal under any circumstances." "All voting done by state central committees or other official party committees must be done by an open ballot," she said. RELATED STORY ON PAGE 39 The charter of the Democratic party requires this, she said.

Any Democrat in Connecticut, she said, is eligible to challenge the result of the State Central Committee vote for O'Neill in a complaint to the Democratic National Committee. If a challenge is filed, she said, a nine-member credentials committee would be summoned to meet in Washington to consider the complaint. Chairman of the credentials committee is National Committeeman Charles Ward of Arkansas. No challenge had been filed Wednesday. Miss McKenna said the complaint could cover the election of O'Neill both as state chairman and as a member of the Democratic National Committee.

O'Neill is automatically a National Committee member by being state chairman. "The positions are one and the same," she said. A bitter debate occurred Monday night at the Hartford Hilton over whether a secret ballot should be held in the vote that resulted in O'Neill's victory over Hartford Town Chairman Peter G. Kelly. O'Neill got 40 votes to 28 for Kelly and four for New Haven County Sheriff Henry Healey Jr.

Former Hartford City Councilman George Levine, a proxy on the state committee, objected to the motion by former Gov. John N. Dempsey of Groton, a leader of the pro-O'Neill forces, for a secret ballot. But Levine was overruled by Lt. Gov.

Robert K. Killian of Hartford, the presiding officer, and by Parliamentarian James Wade of Simsbury. They claimed national party rules did not apply. Two votes in the state committee sustained Killian's ruling; The vote for a secret ballot was 39 to 33. Miss McKenna said the charter of the Democratic party, adopted at the Kansas City, national Democratic charter convention, reads that "all meetings of the Democratic National See State, Page 6 Police Discover Weapons Cache aa ins.

i mining inaic, uui Reagan said he doesn't want the second spot. Reagan has not included Ford on his list of possible vice-presidential contenders and Ford has not given any indication he would accept the second spot. Following Connally and Reagan in the AP survey results were Sen. Howard Baker of Tennessee with 93 delegate mentions and Rockefeller with 75. Ford delegates made up 66 of Rockefeller's mentions for continuing in the second spot.

Ford has said the former New York governor has not been excluded for consideration for his running mate, but Reagan has said he and Rockefeller differ too greatly on philosophy for Rockefeller to be in a Reagan administration. Secretary of Commerce Elliot L. Richardson was named by 60 delegates. Ford and Sen. William Brock III of Tennessee were each named by 25 delegates.

Jobs Veto Overridden By Senate WASHINGTON (UPI) -The Senate, with 15 Republicans defecting from the administration side, voted Wednesday to override Pres-' ident Ford's veto of a public works bill which Democrats said would create more than 300,000 jobs. The vote was 73 to 24, eight more than the two-thirds needed to overturn a veto. The House will probably: take up the veto today and is expected to vote to override by a substantial margin. Ford has cast 53 vetoes since he took office. Congress has overridden eight, not counting Wednesday's Senate vote.

The bill is a scaled-down version of a $6-billion measure Ford vetoed in February. The House voted to override that veto, but the Senate fell three votes short. Ford lost crucial Republicans' support for upholding his veto when Asst Senate GOP Leader Robert P. Grif- See Jobs, Page 6 JOHN B. CONNALLY.

Ticket Prospect? Connally as the incumbent's running mate. Connally' ranked fifth among the vice-presidential choices expressed by Ford delegates, in contrast to the first place he ranked with Reagan backers. Among all the delegates who expressed a choice, Reagan ranks second to Connally with 97 mentions for the second spot. In light of the discussion of a Ford-Reagan or a Reagan-Ford ticket, Ford's delegates seem more receptive to a Ford-Reagan team than Reagan delegates would be to a Reagan-Ford team. It is Ford's delegates who are responsible for the numerous mentions of Reagan 78 of the delegates nam- Firearms officials found nothing to charge him with either.

Police said a machine gun clip was found in the apartment, but no weapon more powerful than a semiautomatic. It is illegal to possess a machine gun. The guns were stacked all" -around the apartment, on furniture, the floor and tables. Police said Kalousdian told them he was preparing to move out of the 60 Zion St. apartment because the building is scheduled for demolition, and the rooms of the house appeared in disarray.

"There's enough guns in there to blow up the whole city," said Patrolman Thomas J. Murphy, "but apparently the man has done nothing to break the law by owning them." Murphy and Patrolman Bruce Boland arrived' at the apartment in response to a call from the mother of two boys who said Kalousdi-an's brother, George, had See Police, Page 6 Probe of Mars Reveals Similarities to Earth Energy WASHINGTON (AP) -Grocery prices leveled off in June, but sharply higher prices for gasoline and other energy products prevented any significant improvement in the nation's inflation rate. The Labor Department reported Wednesday that consumer prices rose one-half of 1 per cent last month, which amounts to an annual rate of 6 per cent. Prices had gone up six-tenths of a per cent in May. However, the June increase provided some encouragement in that it marked the first month since February that prices had not increased faster than the previous month.

President Ford's chief spokesman, Ron Nessen, the increase was "about what was Suisman Gets Chairmanship OfCRCOG Hartford City Councilman Richard Suisman gathered just enough votes to win the chairmanship of the Capitol Region Council of Governments (CRCOG) on a second ballot Wednesday, giving the city the top position for the first time. See Story on P. 25 It also was the first time a battle had developed for the seat, which has become more important to area towns as interest increases in regional approaches to economic problems. Suisman won on the second roll call at a meeting at East Hartford's Holiday Inn, with 20 out of 29 votes cast. Victory required a two-thirds majority: The first vote left him three votes short Marlborough First Selectman Anthony Maiorano got 12 votes on the first ballot and nine on the second.

Inside clined nine-tenths of a per cent last month and were down four-tenths of a per cent for the year. Consumer prices were up 5.9 per cent in the last 12 months, with the consumer price index standing at 170.1 in June. That meant it cost $170.10 to purchase the same variety of goods and services that sold for $100 in the 1967 base period. Among food prices, beef and pork declined following large increases in May. Fruits and vegetables also were lower, but prices rose sharply for eggs, coffee, bakery products, poultry and dairy goods.

Commodities other than food rose one-half of a per cent in June, a bit less than See Fuel, Page 6 was the discovery Tuesday that the planet has about 3 per cent nitrogen and 1.5 per cent argon in its carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere. Dr. Michael McElroy of Harvard University said this had important implications for Mars' early history and suggested the planet once had the ingredients necessary for the development of life. Eiologists hope Viking's three life-detection experiments will answer the ages-old question of whether life exists on Mars. The first biology data is expected in about three weeks.

After observing the color image, Mutch said, "The odds (of finding life) certainly haven't been going down since Viking landed." "Isn't that lovely," Mutch exclaimed when he first saw the color shot on monitors at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory- "To me it's most important to see this distinct reddish hue on the surface. This is a surprisingly terrestriallike desert scene." Although the soil was red, the rocks littering the landscape had a gray or greenish cast that Mutch said could result from various weathering processes. He said the greenish cast raises some See Mars, Page 6 I Most Stores I Open Today Until 9 P.M. KC4 "Win, lose or draw" better at Hoffman's Summer Gun Sale, Newington. Advt cent jump in energy prices, which accounted for nearly a third of the over-all June increase.

At the pump, gasoline prices rose 2.7 per cent last month following an increase of 1.5 per cent in May. Regular grade gasoline averaged 59.2 cents a gallon nationally, while premium averaged 63.7 cents per gallon, the government said. Prices also were up sharply for coal, natural gas, fuel oil and electricity. The average workers' paycheck also shrank in June, owing to both inflation and a decline in weekly hours worked. After subtracting taxes from earnings and taking inflation into account, the Labor Department figured real spendable earnings de-.

Scientists electronically formed the color frame much as an artist mixes his pigments. Dr. Thomas Mutch, head of the photographic experiment, said the reddish tint presumably was caused by the oxidation of iron-rich rocks, apparently at an ear- Science-fiction writers abandoned Mars 30 years ago Page 6. lier age when Mars had more oxygen or water in its atmosphere. Adding to the increasing storehouse of knowledge being gathered by Viking 1 Camp Courant In memory of Mr.

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The weapons cache at the house included a number of semiautomatic rifles; hundreds of antique and new shotguns, some still in the boxes; dozens of swords, including a Samurai sword; about 25 handguns; a crossbow and all sizes of ammunition. Police said the owner of the weapons, Malley Kalous-dian, was charged with disorderly conduct and threatening, but was not charged in connection with the guns. His brother, George, was being sought because police said he ran after a group of children with a rifle. Kalousdian violated no law by collecting the guns, police said, and federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and PASADENA, Calif. (UPI) Scientists viewing photographs from Viking 1 discovered Wednesday that ancient astronomers were right Mars is red.

The first color photograph radioed 214 million miles back to Earth from the cold, desolate desert of Mars' Chryse Basin looked as if the three-legged robot had been looking at Arizona's Painted Desert. There even was a light blue sky. The rusty hues of the unique photograph quickly confirmed scientific speculation that the red planet has had an environment closer to that of Earth than the moon. It was noon on Mars when Viking took the picture and radioed it in the form of three color-filtered images. Story Page 72-75 20 48 30-38 28 14" Financial Later Years Legals Lifestyle Newington Obituaries Sports Star Gazer 11 Sydney Omarr 43 Television 75 Town News 25, 26, 28 West Hartford 28 Priest's Suit Halts Construction Black underground evades South African police.

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Senate passes Watergate Reform Act Page 5. Workers remained at the site Wednesday, but work is not expected to continue today. Blanker said the town has spent $446,660, or about 40 per cent of the $1.3 million allotted for the head-, quarters. He said the framework of the air conditioning outlet has been erected on top of the headquarters, but he would not say whether the outlet could be moved to where it would not block Father Curry's view of Long Island Sound. In a memo to town administrators, Strong said that he "cannot permit continued financial obligations without a clear source of financing," and that the decision "is based on an absence of available him by claiming construction of the headquarters would not block his view of Long Island Sound.

Father Curry said in his suit that the town could only build on the site of the headquarters a building for the "benefit maintenance, and support of the the terms of an 1886 deed of the land to the town. He also claims that the cost of construction has exceeded the $1.3 million allotted to it by a referendum. "We have informed the contractors that no funding is available as of today," Public Works Director William P. Blanker said Wednesday. Blanker said the town has not issued a "stop order" halting construction, but that halting payments to the contractor would have the same effect By GARY WEISS GROTON The town has halted construction of a new police headquarters because of a suit by a priest, who says an air conditioner on the roof would block the view of Long Island Sound from St Mary's rectory.

Town Manager Clinton Strong Wednesday told the contractor that attorneys have advised that the town cannot borrow money for construction of the headquarters as long as the priest's suit raises the possibility that the courts may halt construction. The Rev. James A. Curry, pastor of St Mary's Church, sued the town for $100,000 in New London County Superior Court last month, claiming that town officials repeatedly lied to Page Amusements 70-71 Ann Landers 20 Bridge 43 Camera Angles 19 City News 25,29 Classified 48-61 Comics 69 Crossword 69 East Hartford 26 Editorials 22 Family Doctor 27 Farm News 46 Feminine Topics 44.