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Volume 3, Number 41: July 19, 1974 - July 26, 1974

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.


Screenshot of Volume 3, Number 41 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from July 19, 1974

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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