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Volume 1, Number 33: May 26 - June 1, 1972

  • Jun 1, 1972
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Updated: Jul 12

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from May 26 - June 1, 1972, had 16 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 33 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from May 26, 1972

Article Index

Are High School Dress Codes Wearing Out?

by John Serbell

page 1, page 11 (7d)

keywords: student dress codes; safety hazard; principal; George Mitchell; John Grove; sleveless knit shirts; hats; bras; Central Dauphin School District; Central Dauphin principal Joe Brightbill; Bishop McDevitt High School; Harrisburg District; jeans; sandals; long hair; beards


West Shore Keeps Code, Hits Some Not Others

by Peggy Barnes

page 1, page 9 (7b)

keywords: school dress code; West Shore School District; T shirts; tank tops; New Cumberland Jr. High; Lemoyne Jr. High; Red Land; Cedar Cliff; bras; hair code


Citizens Rap Council

page 1, page 9 (7b), page 16 (12)

keywords: City Council; Harrisburg Center for Peace and Justice; Vietnam War; anti-war resolution; Fr. James LaCroce; Fred Solowey; Council President Paul E. Doutrich; Stanley R. Lawson; Miriam Menaker; Mayor Harold Swenson; Fire Fighters Local 428; fast; recreation; drag-racing; free clinic


Rock Festival Draws 25,000

by Jim Wiggins

page 1, page 5

keywords: Harrisburg Rock Festival; Penn State's Capitol Campus; Fred Solowey; Harrisburg Peace Center; Harrisburg Free Clinic; Head Shop; Mike Bauer


Matrix

by R.C. Filburn

page 2

keywords: Richard Nixon; prayer breakfasts; Senator William E. Duffield; North Vietnam; Senator Henry C. Messinger; Rep. James P. Ritter; public assistance; income tax; Frank C. Hilton; veteran's preference; employment discrimination; Public Personnel Association; Commonwealth Court; women; minorities


Washington Merry-Go-Round

by Jack Anderson/United Feature Syndicate

page 2

keywords: George Wallace; assassination; bodyguards; John Connally; President Nixon; George McGovern; Spiro Agnew; Secretary of State; war planes; carriers; China; Albania; mining; Haiphong harbor; tanks; South Vietnam; Jordan; Foreugn Minister; Abdullah Salah; King Hussein


"Bird" Firebombed

page 2

keywords: arsonist; The Great Speckled Bird; Atlanta; underground newspaper; slumlords; Atlanta Mayor Sam Massell; U.S. Post Office; Julian Bond; federal suit; abortion referral


Legislators Make Welfare Political Football

by Jim Wiggins

page 3

keywords: Welfare Department; appropriation; D. Elmer Hawbaker; Welfare rights Organization; William E. Duffield; Milton Shapp

Senate Stalls on Equal Rights Amendment

by Susan Jameson

page 3

keywords: discrimination; Pennsylvania Senate; Sen. Majority Leader Thomas Lamb; Governor's Commission on the Status of Women; Arline Lotman; referendum; Sen. William Lentz; Sen. Stanley Stroup; Kathryn Bard; abortion; American Civil Liberties Union


Defense Opens in Angela Davis Case

by Liberation News Service

page 3, page 5

keywords: Judge Arnason; Prosecutor Albert Harris; Jonathan Jackson; murder; conspiracy; kidnapping; Marin County Courthouse; Judge Harold Haley; Soledad Brothers; Ruchell Magee; James McClain; William Christmas; George Jackson


May 8 Speech -- How Nixon Rewrote History

by Fred Branfman

page 4

keywords: Project Air War; Opposition: Air War; North Vietnam; South Vietnam; Geneva Accords; Colonel Edward Lansdale; Pentagon Papers; Viet Minh; refugees; Phoenix program; Thieu regime; POWs; blockade; Haiphong harbor; Domino Theory; national reconciliation


Feuilleton

by Dick Sassaman

page 5

keywords: Tiny Tim; Joe Cocker; Fraternal Order of Police Benefit; Forum; Roy Radin Vaudeville Revue; M.C. Norman Brooks; Ken Sherburne; Great Scalzo; Ink Spots; J. Fred Muggs; ventriloquist; vaudeville; 'Tiptoe Through the Tulips'


Poor Graduates Editorial

by Mary Walsh

page 6

keywords: Harrisburg High School; Zembo Mosque; activities fee; suburban high schools; athletic programs; prom; yearbook; school district


Welfare Debacle

page 6

keywords: deficiency appropriation; public assistance; mental health; hospital; day care; nursing home; Senate Majority Leader Thomas Lamb; welfare reform; executive powers


Letters to the Editor

page 6

keywords: welfare recipients; Harrisburg hospitals; Stephen R. Rbyeed; Dauphin County Board of Assistance


What Do You Do If You're 15 and Pregnant?

by Ginger Evans

page 7

keywords: Youth Information Center; one-to-one counseling; abortion; adoption; foster home; Birthright; Ginny Zuvich; Joan Bierd; Central Dauphin East High School; Central Dauphin High School; Cedar Cliff High School; birth control pills


Counselors Needed

page 7

keywords: Capital Area Association for Children with Learning Disabilities; day camp; Riverside Elementary School; Marlin M. Toser


Harrisburg State Hospital: A Letter

by Oliver Knighton

page 8 (7a)

keywords: slavery; Dr. S. Philip Laucks: Commonwealth Careers Program; hourly rate; vocational evaluation programs; Rehabilitation Counselor


Illinois Draft Boards Raided

page 8 (7a)

keywords: Planetary People's Liberation Front; Evanston; Selective Service System; conscientious objector; genocidal warfare; South East Asia


In D.C. the mood was anger and disillusionment

by Julie Nichol

page 11 (7d)

keywords: American bombing; demonstration; capitol; Indochina; Students for a Democratic Society; Progressive Labor Party; Welfare Rights Organization; Attica Brigade; labor leaders; Victor Reuther; strike; Bella Abzug; impeachment; President Nixon


Movie Review "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis"

by Charles D. Leayman

page 12 (8)

keywords: Vittorio De Sica: "neo-realist"; Italian Fascism; Ferrara; Micol; Giorgio Bassani; Dominique Sanda; Helmut Berger; Lino Cappolichio; melancholy


Items of Interest from Congress

page 12 (8)

keywords: South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research; NASA; tracking station; dual pay scale; Charles B. Rangel; Secretary of the Treasury; tax laws; corporate taxation; Congressman Charles A. Vanik


Food for Living

by Jane and Tom Plastino

page 12 (8)

keywords: oatmeal pancakes; apple cinnamon; eggs


Commemoration of a Chilean Factory's Nationalization

by Marc Cooper and Heather Dashner/Liberation News Service

page 13 (9)

keywords: textile company; Ex-Yarur; Central Labor Union of Chile; ITT; theatre company; cultural activities; Committee of Production; day care service; medical and dental clinic


Pennsylvania Gets New Drug Law

by a University of Pittsburgh law student/Pittsburgh Fair Witness

page 13 (9)

keywords: The Controlled Substance, Drug, Device and Cosmetic Act; narcotic; marijuana; delivery; possession with intent to deliver; manufacture; controlled substances; LSD; amphetamine; heroin; trafficking


217 Arrested at Monday's Pentagon Blockade

by Lamar Hoover

page 14 (10)

keywords: People's Coalition for Peace and Justice; People's Blockade; Medical Committee for Human Rights; Dave Dellinger; rally; pepper gas; arraignment; Vietnam Veterans Against the War; Vietnam War; free speech; assembly


Police Offer Their Mayday Film for Sale

by LNS

page 14 (10)

keywords: Police Chief Magazine; The Whole World Is Watching; Washingon D.C. Metropolitan Police; civil disobedience; mass demonstrations; International Association of Chiefs of Police


Book Review: Strip Mining in Eastern Kentucky

by Phil Primack/Mountain Eagle

page 15 (11)

keywords: "My Land Is Dying"; Harry Caudill; The Mountain Eagle: Appalachian Group to Save the Land and People; Dan Gibson; Gov. Ned Breathitt; terracide; Citizens' Committee to Protect Surface Rights


Movies Movies

page 16 (12)

keywords: The Legend of Nigger Charley; Joy In the Morning; Mary Queen of Scots; The French Connection; Fiddler On the Roof; The Godfather


Arts Festival

page 16 (12)

keywords: Harrisburg Symphont Orchestra; Community Theater; Civic Opera Association; HACC 98 drama group; State Museum; candle-dipping; African dancing; ethnic foods; rock music


Artwork

by Gene Suchma

page 1

keywords: student dress codes


by The Movement/LNS

page 13 (9)

keywords: Chilean factory


Photos

by John Serbell

page 1, page 5

keywords: Harrisburg Rock Festival

page 7

keywords: unwanted pregnancies

page 8

keywords: Harrisburg State Hospital


by LNS

page 4

keywords: Project Air War

page 11 (7d)

keywords: National Peace Action Coalition


by Mountain Eagle

page 15 (11)

keywords: strip mining








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