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Volume 1, Number 23: March 16 - March 22, 1972

  • Mar 22, 1972
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Updated: May 2

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from March 16 - March 22, 1972, 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 1, Number 23 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from March 16, 1972

Article Index


Officials Squabble Over Det'n Center Closing

by Pat Read

page 1

keywords: Judge William Lipsitt; County Commissioners; Commissioner W. Crawford Murdoch; Dauphin County Detention home; Commissioner Charles Hoy; Earl Hoffman


Star Witness Tells of Lies and Crimes--His Own

by Edward Zuckerman

page 1, page 3, page 5

keywords: Boyd F. Douglas, Jr.; informer; agent provocateur; Leonard Boudin; Elizabeth McAlister; bad checks; Judge R. Herman Dixon; Paul O'Dwyer; draft board raids; Henry Kissinger; Harrisburg conspiracy; FBI; demolition expert; civil disobeidance


Area Children's Marchers Nix Nixon Plan

page 1, page 6

keywords: Family Assistance Plan; Children's March for Survival; child development programs; health plan; Children's Festival; Lilia Miller; Donna Ivey; day care centers; National Welfare Rights Organization


Legislative Billboard

by Stuart Frolich

page 2

keywords: Representative Harry Comer; capital punishment; Rep. Joseph Sullivan; Mayor Frank Rizzo; State Government Committee; Supreme Court; crimes of passion; Phila. District Attorney; Richard Sprague; white males; blacks; young people; white women


Draft Board Under Fire

page 2

keywords: Warren Lassin; U.S. District Court; Philadelphia Board; Curtis Tarr; National Selective Service Director


Matrix

by R.C. Filburn

page 2

keywords: public assistance; Welfare Secretary Helene Wohlgemuth; appropriations bill; Martin Mullen; abortions; House Minority leader Kenneth B. Lee; Senator Richard A. Snyder; Rperesentative Sherman L Hill; Senator Stanley G. Stroup; Community Services; United Funds; medical assistance


Trial Briefs Religion and Politics to Mix

page 3

keywords: Harrisburg Defense Committee; Fr. Daniel Berrigan; demonstration; Vietnam Veterans Against the War; Peter Yarrow; National Welfare Rights Organization; Judge R. Dixon Herman; Kenneth Filarski; Zoia Horn; wiretap; Daniel Ellsburg; Pentagon Papers


Organizing In the Military

Interview with Andy Stapp

by John Serbell

page 4

keywords: American Servicemen's Union; The Bond; GIs; union; court martial; antiwar literature; GI resistance; salute; military installations; illegal orders; volunteer army; draft


Women's Commission: If She Hollers Let her Go

by Jody Raphael

page 5

keywords: Governor's Commission on the Status of Women; Governor Milton J. Shapp; newspaper; lobbying; employment counseling; hiring; sex discrimination; executive director


Women's Commission: New Staff to be Hired

page 5

keywords: Chairperson Lynn Scheffey; equql rights; C. Delores Tucker; Nancy Van Vuren; feminist movement; discrimination; Governor's office; Co-Chairwoman Alma Fox


Reporter Denied Interviews with Prison Strikers

page 5

keywords: Judge Gerhard A. Gesell; Washington Post; Assistant Managing Editor Ben Bagdikian; Warden Noah Alldredge; Lewisburg prison; Danbury; public interest; American Civil Liberties Union


Editorial Bail: A Stacked Deck

page 6

keywords: State Senate; bondsmen; money bail; criminal Justice system


Who's Getting A Charge Out of Your Money

by John Hileman

page 7

keywords: banks; savings and loan associations; Farmers' Bank and Trust Co.; West Shore First Bank and Trust; checking accounts; Cumberland Valley; savings accounts; Savings Certificates


Review: Viet Rock A Multidimensional Musical

by Anita Harris

page 7

keywords: Workshop 98; HACC; Vietnam War; Megan Terry; Dodie Keim; Susan Yost; Lysbeth Oman; Steve Van Voorhees; Larry Matthews; Richard K. Olsen; Karen Bohner; music; chants; speeches; dance; Vietnamese soldiers; Joe Cicak; band


Movie Review "The Last Picture Show"

by Charles D. Leayman

page 8, page 11

keywords: Peter Bogdanovich; Larry McMurtry; Texas; Timothy Bottoms; Jeff Bridges; Ben Johnson; Cybill Shepherd; Ellen Burstyn; Cloris Leachman; movie house; black and white photography


Record Review: Soul Explosion

by Ross Care

page 8, page 11

keywords: rhythm and blues; Atlantic label; Heavy Soul; Betty Wright; Clean Up Woman; Aretha Franklin; Young, Gifted and Black; Billy Preston; King Curtis; Ray Charles; Roberta Flack; Quiet Fire; Bridge; Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow


Food For Living

by Jane and Tom Plastino

page 8

keywords: meat pasties; chicken; lamb; beef; crackers


Short Shorts

by LNS/Wall Street Journal

page 9

keywords: Henry Kissinger; Peter Peterson; aphrodisiac; power; American Motors; auto workers; Eastern Airlines; Disney World; family plan; American Airlines; pianos; Civil Aeronautics Board


Gettysburg Site of 'Prilgrimage'

page 9

keywords: Harrisburg Holy Week Pilgrimage; Howard Zinn; Eternal Peace Light; Gettysburg Address; Harrisburg; York; guerilla theater; NARMIC; American machine and Foundry; Earth Onion


Washington Merry-Go-Round

by Jack Anderson/United Feature Syndicate

page 9

keywords: State Department; foreign service officers; West Africa; kidnapping; Gordon Mein; Frank Carlucci; Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act; U.S. Chamber of Commerce; National Association of Manufacturers; American Medical Association; J. Edgar Hoover; FBI; John Mitchell; Richard Kleindienst; President Nixon; Chou En-lai; Soviet officials; Peking talks


FDA Claps Lid on Possible Cancer Cure

by Marsha Goluboff

page 10, page 11

keywords: cancer research; vitamin B-17; deficiency disease; laetrile; millet; buchwheat; lima beans; chick peas; Dr. Ernst Krebs; American Research Foundation; cyanide; rhodanese; Amygladin; Alfred Kanfer; handwriting samples; Strang Clinic for Preventitive Medicine


Appeal Denied for Black Resister

by LNS

page 10

keywords: draft resisters; federal prisons; Vietnam War; Walter Collins; Texas; CO discharge; black liberation movement; Selective Service Act; National association of Black Students; Ms. Virginia Collins


Justice Department Silent While Some Imprisoned Resisters Could Be Free

by Yvonne Pearson/Dispatch News Service International

page 11

keywords: Justice Department; Selective Service System; Senator Edward Kennedy; conscientious objectors; Supreme Court; American Civil Liberties Union; Marvin Karpatkin; Deputy Assistant Attorney General Kevin Maroney


Federal Trade Commission

page 11

keywords: gas; octane; pollution


Movies

page 12

keywords: Intimate Lighting; Ivan Passer; Captain Milkshake; Chandler; Lady and the Tramp; Sometimes A Great Notion; Ken Kesey; Dirty Harry; Clint Eastwood; The French Connection; The Hospital; Paddy Chyefsky


Photos

by John Serbell

page 1, page 3, page 4, page 6, page 7

keywords: Dauphin County Prison


Artwork

by Toni Truesdale

page 1


by Gene Suchma

page 2, page 4

keywords: Henry Kissinger


by Oliphant

page 4


page 9

keywords: Fat Freddy's Cat


by Kathe Kollwitz

page 11








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