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THE HARTFORD COURANT: Thursday. July 22, 1376 State Democrats' Voting In Secret Called Illegal Mars Not Bright Star Among Sci-Fi Writers i W. 'MMit 1 green men, Roberts said. Burroughs 10- to 12-foot-tall marti-ans had four arms and tusks, he said. Early science fiction writers thought of Mars like people in the 17th and 18th centuries contemplated the South Pacific "They'd never been there so they could imagine anything," he said.

But Mars has never disappeared from the literary scene and the latest discoveries could prompt a flood of new books about it, he said. Science fiction authors like most Eeople may wonder "what's over that orizon" in the Viking pictures, he said. Roberts confessed he had examined the pictures "to see if there were any little heads peering up" over the rock-strewn martian landscape that resembled Death Valley. "People want the unexpected they want something alive," he said. "If all they find is viruses, they'll be disappointed." By TERESE KARMEL STORRS Although Mars is now grabbing page one headlines, the planet has been out of fashion with science-fiction writers for the last 30 years.

So says University of Connecticut English Prof. Thomas J. Roberts who teaches a popular science fiction course at UConn each year. The writers are aware of scientific data that suggests there's no life as humans know it on Mars. This has prompted them to "wander about the galaxy" searching for planets in other solar systems for their works, Roberts said.

Authors who have written about rMars generally concentrate on Martian of Earth or treat the planet "as a kind of version of the Middle with only "ruins of an ancient civilization" remaining, he said. A novel by Tarzan author Edgar Rice Burroughs, written in 1911, was the first suggestion that Martians are meeting was illegal because of the secret ballot and we told them so." That's all he would say. Rare Ailment Not Detected This Summer NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) Medical researchers have failed to find any more cases of a rare disease almost confined to this offshore Massachusetts island. The disease is human babesiosis, caused by a parasite transmitted to humans from field rodents by ticks.

At the end of the summer of 1975, the researchers from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta. had uncovered eight cases from Nantucket, one from the nearby island of Martha's Vineyard and one in a Georgia man whose blood carried the parasite without his showing signs of illness. Continued from Page 1 Committee, executive committee and all other official party committees, commissions and bodies shall be open to the public and votes snail not be taken by secret ballot." She said that "all voting done by a state central committee by secret ballot is not allowed under any circumstances." A challenge must be filed within 30 days after the incident occurred, she said. Any Democrat within the "jurisdiction" covered by the committee's action, she said, can file a complaint with the National There are about 575,000 registered Democrats in Connecticut. Levine, when informed of Miss McKenna's interpretation of party rules, said "it was exactly the point I made" at the State Central Committee meeting.

He would make no other comment. Gov. Grasso, told about the Washington rules interpretation, said: "I am sure that all parties concerned will wish to conduct this meeting in accordance with proper legal procedures. "If any inconsistencies with the charter of the Democratic party exist, I am sure that they will be corrected." Wade, reached at his home in Simsbury, said he had "no comment" until he had studied the development further. Some party leaders Wednesday night said the election of O'Neill, if unchallenged in a complaint filed with the National Committee, would stand.

But others felt state party leaders might not want to keep the election under, a cloud and may call another meeting of the State Central Committee to take a public.vote. Hartford City Councilman Nicholas R. Carbone, a strong Kelly supporter, said, "We knew all along that the Politically Unhurt Gov. Grasso answers a question during a news conference at the state Capitol in Hartford Wednesday. During the news conference, her first public appearance since the Monday night re-election of William A.

O'Neill as state Democratic Party (chairman, Mrs. Grasso said that O'Neill was not damaging to her politically AP). Mars Probe Finds Red, Blue, But No Little Green Men isms, he said, and Mars' upper atmosphere more easily would provide nitrogen atoms than does Earth's. He said there is now enough nitrogen in Mars' atmosphere "to allow biology to go well if other conditions are right." McElroy said the earlier data suggest that Mars had a nitrogen-rich atmosphere at some time in its 4.5-billion year history. Nitrogen is a key to the origin and support of Earth-type life.

Nitrogen is needed in atomic form to support organ Continued from Page 1 questions because different chemical processes would be involved in producing the two" types of minerals. The color photo was followed by reports from Viking on the planet's weather and. "marsquake" activity. black and white photos came back earlier in the day" Viking sent back its first two shots shortly after landing Tuesday. A' black and white picture stored in the lander's tape recorder and transmitted baek early Wednesday showed windblown sediment piling against small bould Ruling May Bring State $40 Million HEIRLOOM LOOKS YOU CAN EASILY MAKE AT SAVINGS FROM BUCILLA BliClLLA JIFFY CROSS-STITCH QUILTS A U.S.

District Court decision Wednesday in Washington ordering the federal gov- eminent to pay past-due funding to several states could mean $40 million for Connecticut, the Associated Press reported. State Social Services Commissioner Edward Maher said about $40 million in program funding was withheld from Connecticut in 1972 by the Nixon Administration. The Nixon Administration tried to limit federal pay-, ments for state social service programs but the court that the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) must make payments for social services already delivered by the states. There were 14 other states that sued to get the money. Among them were Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Maher said he received word of the court ruling from the law firm representing Connecticut in the case. He called the ruling "potentially great" but would make no further comment pending a review of the court documents. He said the money was owed to the state for programs in various state departments. Maher said he didn't know where the money would go if and when it is paid to the state. Massachusetts Gov.

Michael Dukakis said HEW could appeal the ruling in federal court and prevent the states from receiving it. The money might also be subject to congressional appropriation. Dukakis said the ruling could mean $142.4 million for his state. The Nixon Administration sought to place a ceiling on social service reimbursements to the in 1972. FULL SIZE 10.99 REG.

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The new bill includes $2 billion for public works projects to create jobs mainly in the, construction industry; $1.25 billion in budget aid to keep state and local governments hard hit by recession from having to lay off employes, and $700 million for water treatment plants in 33 stages which claim they were shortchanged in an earlier- allocation of antipollution" funds. Ford called the revised bill an election-year "giveaway." lie said in his veto message it would produce only a small fraction of the number of jobs claimed; that the jobs would not be lasting ones and would cost taxpayers an average of $25,000 each. He said the main impact of the bill, would not occur for 18 months, at which time it would overstimulate a recovering economy and produce inflation. In the debate Wednesday, supporters of the bill noted the; national unemployment rate rose from 7.3 per cent in May to 7.5 per cent in June, with unemployment in the; construction industry twice that rate. 'tWe cannot consider our national economy to be in a healthy or wholesome situation," said Sen.

Jennings Randolph, adding the bill is not a "giveaway but a "productive program." Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, said the vote would be an "acid test" of Democratic pledges to reduce unemployment. Sen. Howard H.

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"He could open up a gun shop anytime he wanted to," said Boland. "I never saw anything like it." Continued from Page 1 run after a group of children with a rifle wrapped in a towel. The neighborhood children have been pestering the Ka-lousdian brothers, neighbors said, pelting their cars with eggs and throwing rocks. Wednesday afternoon, one of the children said some children were playing in back of the building where Kalousdian lived as the only remaining tenant when George Kalousdian ran out pointing the gun at them. When the children scattered, George Kalousdian drove off.

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