This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from April 20 - April 27, 1973, 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
Gekas says 'happy trails to you,' but no snowmobiles
by Hannah Leavitt
page 1, page 8
keywords: Colin Fletcher; hiking; "The Complete Walker"; Appalachian Trail; snowmobiles; House Bills 189 and 190; Rep. George Gekas; Earl Shaffer; Sierra Club; Keystone Trails Association
State ups quaaludes; now it's a felony
page 1
keywords: methaqualone; felony; J. Finton Speller; Secretary of Health; Controlled Substance, Device and Cosmetic Act; National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse; Raymond P. Shafer
The latest meat poison
by Ralph Nader
page 2
keywords: In the Public Interest; hexachlorobenzine; U.S. Department of Agriculture; Meat and Poultry Inspection Program; Food and Drug Administration; Environmental Protection Agency; contaminant; fungicide; John E. Spaulding
Letters to the Editor
page 2
keywords: Anne Shumway; York Action for Peace and Justice; Cambodia; South Vietnam; bombing; Nixon Administration; Thieu regime
CBS & WHP TV versus 'Sticks & Bones'
by John Serbell
page 3, page 8
keywords: disabled Vietnam veteran; David Rabe; CBS executives; POWs; network programming; TV license renewals; FCC; Joseph Higgins; Clay Whitehead; Shakespeare Festival Play
Vietnam comes home to roost at Wounded Knee
by Jim Wiggins
page 4, page 7
keywords: Ted Glick; American Indian Movement; Harrisburg 7; Independent Oglala Sioux Nation; Pine Ridge reservation; peace pipe; Bureau of Indian Affairs; Viet Cong; 'scorched earth policy'
How to fill out your congressman's questionnaire
by Susan Hoch
page 5
keywords: U.S. Rep. Herman T. Schneebeli; President Nixon; budget; federal spending; Friends Committee on National Legislation; housing; transportation; education; highway trust funds; Social Security; miliary budget
YIPPIES get stoned
by Tom Watts
page 5
keywords: Youth International Party; Prisoners of Weed; smoke-ins; marijuana; J-Day; Pennsylvania YIP; demonstrations
Will the Phillipines be America's new Vietnam
by Paul Ross/Pacific News Service
page 6
keywords: Muslims; "Muslim Revolutionary Forces"; Sulu Islands; Mindinao; F-86s; President Marcos; Manila; Ilagas; Luzon Island; New People's Army; U.S. government; Spanish colonization
Nixon asks classification law
page 7
keywords: classified information; President Nixon; Justice Department; Pentagon Papers; Daniel Ellsburg; Anthony Russo; espionage; Federal Criminal Code; national security; Judge Wm. Matthew Byrne; national defense
Montage
page 7
keywords: American automakers; Environmental Protection Agency; William Ruckelshaus; federal pollution standards; Nixon Administration; Honda; Mazda; drug searches; Volkswagen vans; immigration; Attorney General Richard Kleindienst; customs officials; Mexicans; President Nixon; unemployment compensation; farm workers; striking workers; Department of Environmental Resources; Pennsy Supply; air pollution; Congressman Wright Patman; lobbying; price-freeze bill; Pablo Picasso; Republican National Committee; John Lofton; communist
Harrisburg opera: somewhere a place for us
by Dick Sassaman
page 8
keywords: Harrisburg Civic Opera; Harrisburg Community Theater; Mozart; The Impresario; Gian Carlo Menotti; The Medium; Kenneth landis; A.J. Moulfair; Charles Schulz; Mr. Scruples; John Kindervater; Madame Baba; supernatural; Emalee Thompson
Crime pays, especially at local theaters
by Dick Sassaman
page 9
keywords: movies; Sleuth; The Godfather; crime; death; Laurence Olivier; Michael Caine; Marlon Brando; Al Pacino; detective story writer; Tony-award; Mario Puzo; Vito Corleone; Cosa Nostra; Mafia; Francis Coppola; Union Deposit Cinema; Trans-Lux Theaters
Movies
page 10
keywords: Brother Sun, Sister Moon; Franco Zefferelli; St. Francis of Assisi; Graham Faulkner; Judi Bowker; Alec Guinness; The Poseiden Adventure; Gene Hackman; Ernest Borgnine; Shelley Winters; Class of '44; Deliverance; Jon Voight; Burt Reynolds; Dueling Banjos; Jeremiah Johnson; Robert Redford; Pete 'n Tillie; Walter Mathau; Carol Burnett; B;ack Violence Films; Book of Numbers; Black Caesar; Jim Brown; Slaughter; Manin the Wilderness; Richard Harris; Slaughterhouse 5; Kurt Vonnegut; Michael Sacks; Billy Pilgrim; P.O.W.
Records
by Dick Sassaman
page 11
keywords: Beck, Bogert, Appice; Lady; Led Zeppelin; Houses of the Holy; Jimmy Page; Robert Plant; John Paul Jones; Silverhead; Michael Des Barres
Photos
by Hoch
page 1
by LNS
page 4
by Adams
page 8
Artwork
by LNS
page 3, page 6
by Truesdale
page 5
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