Volume 3, Number 41: July 19, 1974 - July 26, 1974
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- Jul 31, 2023
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Updated: Mar 22
This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from June July 19, 1974 - July 26, 1974, had 12 pages, filled with independent local, regional, and national news. Six months for $5, one year for $8. Download the .pdf at the bottom of the page.

Article Index
Environmentalists fight to save Stony Creek
by Stan Luxenberg
page 1, page 2, page 9
keywords: Stony Creek Valley; wilderness area; foot; bike; horse; Stony Creek Valley Coalition; Bill Beck; PP&L; permit; Federal Power Commission; pump storage station; hydroelectric power; recreation; fishing; Maurice Goddard
Former addict fired by Bethlehem Steel
by Jim Zimmerman
page 2
keywords: Paul Fischer; heroin addict; methodone; D.C. Higgins; Management Representative; de-toxification; Jeff Berringer; Legal Services; United Steelworkers; United States Army; Addictive Diseases Clinic; government work
Pricing leadfree gas
by Ralph Nader
page 3
keywords: pollution control devices; catalyst; fuel economy; Environmental Protection Agency; Federal Energy Administration; In the Public Interest; leaded gas; consumer protection agency; Public Interest Research Group; Consumers Union; John Sawhill; public health
Montage
page 3
keywords: Quote; Kurt Vonnegut; 'Cat's Cradle'; 'God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater'; Ohio school district; Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Caspar Weinberger; sex discrimination; sex education; sex role stereotyping; secondary schools; Congress; strip mining; Rep. Ken Hechler; coal companies; reclamation surcharge; bills; environmentalists; strip mining; United Mine Workers; Russell Train; Environmental Protection Agency
The Atlanta Black community confronts police
by LNS
page 4
keywords: protests; rallies; Atlanta Police Department; Brandon Gibson; parade permit; Police Chief John Inman; Maynard Jackson; People's Coalition to Get Rid of Inman; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Detective Barnes; David Jack; police misconduct; media spying; Atlanta Voice; black newspaper; terrorists; undercover agents; Decoy Squad
Meatcutters continue Wisconsin strike
by LNS
page 5
keywords: Packerland meatpacking plant; Chippewa Falls; union contract; negotiations; Amalgamated Meatcutters Union; boycott; pay; working conditions; work week; accident rate; women; Welfare Rights Organization; Sigmund Frankenthal; State Department of Health; injunction; scab; security guards
Behavior mod in Pa. prisons
by Paul Lyons
page 6
keywords: Vietnam Veterans Against the War; State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon; Behavior Adjustment Unit; K. Leroy Irvis; psychological torture; isolation; de-humanization; Farview State Hospital; behavior modification programs; psychoactive drugs; sensory deprivation; prisoners
Feuilleton
by Dick Sassaman
page 6
keywords: Quotes; State Senator Joseph J. Staszak; beer; wine; liquor; Vice President; Agnew; Dover Books; Distributive Workers of America; Hayward Cirker; The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson; "Books on Social protest"; Emma Goldman; Peter Propotkin; Michael Bakunin; Max Stirner
Huge African oil strikes change area politics
by Barry Rubin/PNS
page 9
keywords: Nigeria Angola; petroleum producing region; General Yakubu Gowon; West African common market; Gulf Oil; Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola; Arab oil boycott; Zaire; Mobutu Seso Seko; National Liberation Front of Angola; Portugal; Congo Republic; oil companies; Black Africa; Mobil; Texaco; Shell; Marien N'Gouabi
Letters To the Editor
page 10
keywords: Inmates; Dauphin County Prison; Willie Lee Sinkler; Solitary Confinement; epileptic seizure; medication; investigation; The Hole; Citizens for a Safe Environment; Blaine Fabian; Metropolitan Edison; radioactive iodine; Atomic Energy Commission; tritium; zenon; krypton; cancer; leukemia; infant mortality; Environmental protection Agency; low level radiation
Worldwide starvation
by Alan Miller/PNS
page 10
keywords: United Nations; malnutrition; Africa; drought; famine; India; Indonesia; Bangladesh; world food production; fertilizer; technology; marine harvest; agricultural resources; Sen. Hubert Humphrey
Books Books Books Watergate
by Dick Sassaman
page 11
keywords: Informal History; Ervin Committee hearings; Gerald Gardner; The Watergate Follies; Roy Kammerman; Poor Richard's Watergate; G. Gordon Liddy; Watergate By the Numbers; Sam Schultz; The National Watergate Test; Hank Bradford; Tom Moore; Watergate Coloring Book; The Fireside Watergate; Nicholas von Hoffman; Garry Trudeau; Watergate: Chronology of a Crisis; The Watergate Hearings, Break-In and Cover-Up; The White House Transcripts; Jeb Magruder; An American Life: One Man's Road to Watergate; The Palace Guard; Dan Rather; Carl Bernstein; Bob Woodward; All the President's Men; Mary McCarthy; The Mask of State: Watergate Portraits; John Dean; Vietnam; President Nixon; Chuck Colson
Artwork
by Gene Suchma
page 1
keywords: A Notion of Sheep; crooks; abortion; tradition; alternatives
by Maurice Wilson
page 6
by Getz
page 7
by PNS
page 9
Photos
by John Serbell
page 1
by Bob Yunke
page 2
by LNS
page 4, page 5
by Vince Compagnone/Door/LNS
page 11
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