Volume 1, Number 34: June 2 - June 9, 1972

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from June 2 - June 9, 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.

Article Index

Mortgage shortage furthers city property decline

by Anita Harris

page 1, page 7

keywords: city property values; real estate brokers; Dauphin Deposit; Commonwealth National Bank; Hamilton Neighborhood Development; Harris Savings and Loan; Charles Adler and Son Real Estate; Carl Yeakley; FHA guaranteed mortgages; Human Relations Commission

Council to discuss war

page 1

keywords: Harrisburg City Council; anti-war resolution; Vietnam War; Council President Paul E. Doutrich Jr; Center for Peace and Justice

Four Convicted of Bomb plot

page 1, page 6

keywords: Bethlehem, Pa.; David Heckman; James Heiney; Robert Rundle; John Vito; conspiracy; Public Defender David Rudovsky; Donald P. Murphy, Sr.; informer; Agnes Black; Kenneth Gray; Revolutionary Socialist Union; Bethlehem Steel Co.

Guest Editorial: Harrisburg Arts Festival

by Sam Freedenberg

page 1, page 6

keywords: painting; Terry Bowie; "I Love a Parade"; HACC Workshop 96; "Viet Rock"; Cedar Cliff High School; "Stars and Stripes"; His Masters Players; "The Case Against Eve"; Feme Hetrick; State Historical and Museum Commission; plays; obscene; free expression

Matrix

by R.C. Filburn

page 2

keywords: War Veterans Council; Memorial Day Parade; "Peace!"; Rear Admiral John A. Scott; nuclear submarine; World War I vets; Senator Richard A. Snyder; public assistance; GAO investigation; welfare department

Washington Merry-Go-Round

by Jack Anderson/United Features Syndicate

page 1, page 2

keywords: Secret Service; assassins; Jackie Robinson; President of the United States; George Wallace; Holy Cross Hospital; President Nixon; Leonid Brezhnev; Moscow; summit meeting; Hubert Humphrey; George McGovern; Senator Ted Kennedy; Birch Bayh; campaign debts; North Vietnam; President Salvador Allende; Chile; Egypt; Arab-Israeli War

Stars get it on for George

by Earth News

page 2

keywords: George McGovern; Madison Square Garden; show business personalities; Mike Nichols; Petr, Paul and Mary; Elaine May; Paul Simon; Art Garfunkle; Warren Beatty; Julie Christie; Bette Davis; Ben Garraza; Gene Hackman; Goldie Hawn; Dustin Hoffman; James Earl Jones; Paul Newman; Raquel Welch

Penn State sudent president charges harassment

by Jim Wiggins

page 3

keywords: Mike Shields; Penn State University student government; parole violations; Rockview; Project Newgate; prison reform; Wells Keddie; radical views; Harrisburg Area Community College

State passes welfare control amendment

page 3

keywords: Welfare Department; executive power; welfare rules and regulations; state legislature; Gov. Shapp

VVAW member appointed to draft board

page 3

keywords: Harrisburg draft board 55; Governor's Press Secretary James Dorris; military reserve obligations; State Selective Service Director Robert Ford; Gov. Milton Shapp; President Richard Nixon; Equal Rights Amendment

State Prisoners File Suit, Charge Gov't Conspiracy

by Anita Harris

page 4

keywords: class action suit; Federal District Court; constitutional rights; American Civil Liberties Union; "Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners"; Gov. Milton Shapp; Attorney General J. Shane Creamer; personal hygiene; solitary confinement; prison rules and regulations; censorship of mail; news media; racial tensions; Thomas Harvey III

Books Books Books

by Dick Sassaman

page 4

keywords: Report From Engine Co. 82; Dennis Smith; fires; firemen; South Bronx; 41st Precinct House; false alarms; drug overdoses; ghetto

Getting out of the pen Interview

page 5

keywords: Nelson Drummond; prison strikes; County Parole Office; ombudsman; punishment; deterrent; rehabilitation; probation; Warden Alldredge; Lewisburg; Boyd Douglas; Philip Berrigan; selective prosecution

Draft counseling available

page 6

keywords: Harrisburg Center for Peace and Justice; Robert Dufner; Selective Service

Review: Arts Festival

by Dick Sassaman

page 7

keywords: Harrisburg Arts Festival; William Penn Memorial Museum; concerts; Ray Clodoveo Accordian Orchestra; Eden; juried art exhibitions; photography; pottery-making; Irene Palashewskyl

Don't Let a Flat Deflate You

by Penny Royal

page 8

keywords: jack; lug nut; wheel

Peace Alert U.S.A.

by Delton Franz

page 8

keywords: Mennonite Central Committee; Vietnam War; referendum; Senator Harold Hughes; Alan Cranston; National Peace Poll

document: Communique From the Weather Underground

by Liberation News Service

page 9

keywords: bomb; Pentagon; National Liberation Front; Rural Pacification program; Ho Chi Minh; Ngo Dinh Diem; Geneva Accords; "Vietnamization"; Provisional Revolutionary Government; naval and air war

Laos Ruling Class Alleged to Be Part of Drug Trade

by John Everingham/DNSI

page 10

keywords: opium; heroin traffic; Bureau of Narcotics; army officers; "Golden Triangle"; Burma; Thailand; Laos; informers

Short Shorts

by LNS/UPS

page 10

keywords: Puerto Rico; colony; cheap labor supply; Puerto Rican economy; Toronto Addiction Research Foundation; marijuana; woolen belts; Navy; long hair; laziness

Ann Arbor Drug Law Elates Some, Scares Some

by LNS

page 10

keywords: Human Rights Party; Ann Arbor City Council; marijuana possession; Mayor Robert Harris; Michigan Marijuana Initiative; referendum

"NLF" Mines Newport Harbor with Balloons

by All Hands Abandon Ship/LNS

page 11

keywords: Newport, R.I.; National Liberation Front; Navy; Vietnam; Ordinance Disposal Team; explosion; Armed Forces Day

Buffalo Creek Residents Confront Pittston

by Independent Press/the Mountain Eagle

page 11

keywords: Pittston Company; slag heap; West Virginia; stockholders meeting; Buffalo Mining Company; Nicholas T. Camicia; Morris D. Abrams; claims; coal

Food for Living

by Phil and Jerbol Stauffer

page 11

keywords: wacky cake; wholewheat flour

Movies Movies Movies

page 12

keywords: The Last Picture Show; Fiddler On the Roof; The Godfather; The Legend of Nigger Charley; Mary Queen of Scots; Skyjacked

Artwork

by Gene Suchma

page 1

keywords: mortgages

page 5

keywords: Buffalo Bob

page 6

keywords: Harrisburg Arts Festival

by Brian Peckham

page 8

keywords: flat

by LNS

page 8

keywords: Ho Chi Minh

Photos

by John Serbell

page 3

keywords: draft board; VVAW

page 4

keywords: state prisoners

page 5

keywords: Nelson Drummond; penitentiary

by LNS

page 11

keywords: Buffalo Creek; coal

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