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Volume 2, Number 34: June 2 - June 9, 1973

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


Screenshot of Volume 2, Number 34 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from June 2, 1973

Article Index


Graduation day with Dick Kleindienst

by Jim Wiggins

page 1, page 6, page 11

keywords: Attorney General; Daniel Ellsburg; Watergate; Camden 17; Susquehanna University; national security; Nixon administration; electronic surveillance; wiretaps; FBI; Harrisburg 7 trial; Judge Byrne; Richard Nixon; commencement address


Say no to Nixon

page 2

keywords: Central Penna. Coalition for Human Needs; cutbacks; militarism; racism; housing; youth problems; child care


Lower prices through co-ops

by Ralph Nader

page 2

keywords: In the Public Interest; consumer cooperatives; Migros; Switzerland; Gottlieb Duttwiler; food markets; pollution; plastic; "Bureau for the Prevention of Bureaucratic Abuses; auto insurance; restaurants; travel agencies; packaging plants; book and record clubs


Local rent-a-car companies blacklist Harrisburg neighborhoods

by Hannah Leavitt

page 2, page 8

keywords: Sears Rent-a-Car; Budget Rent-a-Car; insurance premiums; Mastercharge; "high risk"; racism; discrimination; vandalism


Free schools: 'we will grow our own children'

by Susan Hoch

page 3, page 11

keywords: literacy; Marble Heights; Londonderry School; Deep Run School; public school system; Randy Farkas; academics; compulsory education; standardized tests; alternative schools; parent participation


Autopsy: public housing & the FHA number game

by Ambrose Klain

page 4, page 8

keywords: Great Society; Operation Breakthrough; rehabilitation programs; housing; Pruitt Igoe; Jackson Lick housing project; racial segregation; St. Louis Housing Authority; George Romney; Housing and Urban Development; elderly; home ownership; low income families; suburbs; mortgages; ghetto; foreclosures


The explosive case of Karl Armstrong

by Jim White

page 5

keywords: Army Mathematics Research Center; Madison, Wisconsin; "New Year's Gang"; Extradition Act; murder; arson; Canada; anti-war demonstrations; military technology; Judge Harry Waisburg; Indochina


What's behind the gasoline shortage?

by Roger Rapaport/PNS

page 6

keywords: Standard Oil of California; oil companies; Christopher Rand; foreign oil; Saudi Arabia; corporate profits; Persian Gulf; environmentalists; Alaska pipeline; drilling costs; tax breaks


We have been brainwashed about the POW's...

by Jane Fonda

page 7, page 10

keywords: Vietnam veterans; Winter Soldier Investigation; Vietnamese people; Nixon administration; U.S. Air Force Officers; General Lavelle; Pentagon; Navy Captain Walter Wilber; prison conditions; torture; fascism; Indochina


... and political prisoners in Vietnam

by Jim White

page 7

keywords: POW; South Vietnam; political prisoners; torture; Nguyen Van Thanh; Con Son prison; Jean-Pierre Debris; Andre Menas; South Vietnamese jails; Harrisburg Center for Peace and Justice


Montage

page 8

keywords: militarization; napalm; Indochina war; Third World countries; Stockholm International Peace Researvh Institute; military expenditure; House Internal Security Committee; Ramsey Clark; Hanoi; longhair; Seoul, South Korea; Senator Bud Dwyer; phosphates; clean water; citizens' group; Illinois; sex talk shows; FCC; Dean Burch; radio stations; 'Comics King'; Mitchell Mendy; Superman comic book


The Arts Festival & Matthews and Whitney

by Dick Sassaman

page 9

keywords: Harrisburg Arts Festival; hammered dulcimer; HACC Student Center; Lion Miller; Raymond Emery; Foggy Morn; Tim Mateer; The Music Man; New Jazz Quartet; Dante's Restaurant; Doug Whitney; Kathy Matthews; Blue Morning


Movies

page 10

keywords: Solyent Green; Charlton Heston; Edward G. Robinson; Last Tango in Paris; Marlon Brando; Maria Schneider; Red Sun; Toshiro Mifune; Charles Bronson; Ursala Andress; Hitler - The Last ten days; Alec Guinness; Camelot; Richard Harris; Vanessa Redgrave; Gone With the Wind; Clark Gable; Vivien Leigh; Academy Awards; Heartbreak Kid; Elaine May


Records

by Dick Sassaman

page 11

keywords: Two from Chicago; Bill Quateman; Bonnie Koloc; Fairport Convention; Rosie; folk-rock; Anne Murray; Danny's Song; Snowbird; Best Album; Best Variety performer


Photos

by Bob Coleman

page 1

by Susan Hoch

page 3

by Steve VanVoorhees

page 4

by Flanagan

page 7

by L. Mohar

page 9


Artwork

by Herblock

page 6








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