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1qJFOR PAPERfRCHASDIGLBW.XOLA cARS WST WOT usE.) CAUTION: ADVANCE LBWIS COLUMN FOR RRLEASE WEINESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, A.M. AND P.M. PAPERS. MUST NOT BE PUBLISHED BEPORE THAT DATE.) WASHINKTON RKPORT BI FULTON LEWIS, JR. COPYRIGKT, 196, KING FEATORES SINDICATE, INC. WAShINGToN, SEpT. 5 -- Buried in the files of a Congressional subcommittee is a letter written by the then Senator John F. Kennedy in behalf of a Massachusetts road builder who d1spensed some $275,000 in bribes to Bay State officials.. --The letters were written two years ago when Thomas Worcester attenpted to get road building contracts in New Jersey. At least time. They were House Majority Leader John McCormack; Res Prank "Topper" Thompson, of New Jersey, and Robert Burkhardt, then executive secretary of the New Jersey State Democratic Conmittee. Burkhardt wrote New Jersey highway officials that Worcester was "sponsored" by Kennedy, McCormack and Thompson. He was named Assistant campaign of Democrat Richard Hughes.. New Jersey Highway Commissioner Dwight Palmer relected the pressure extended by the four Democrats. Worcester was unable to get a contract with the state. The letters are in the files of the special subcommittee created to oversee the Federal interstate highway program. Its chairman, John A. Blatnik, admits he has the letters, but refuses to open committee files. to Republican members. This despite HouseRule X1 25, which states: "All committee hearings, records, data, charts and files shall be. kept separate and distinct from the Congressional office records of. the member serving as chairman of the committee; and such records shall be the property of the House and all members of the House shall have access to such records.". Florida's Bill Cramer is ranking Republican on the committee. For more than a year he has attenpted to see the records to determine what progress, if any, was being made in the group's investigative work. But Blatnik has refused to allow Cramer, or any other Republican to see the documents. Also denied access is the minority counsel, Robert Manuel.d (MORE)