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Volume 2, Number 42: July 27 - August 3, 1973

Updated: Dec 17, 2024

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from July 27 - August 3, 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 42 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from July 27, 1973

Article Index


Curfew at City Island: the party is over

by Stan Luxenberg

page 1, page 4, page 5

keywords: Mayor Harold Swenson; Youth Urban Services; Harrisburg police; public safety; marijuana; Police Chief Paul King; City Councilman Al Schmidt


Local group arrested in White House

by Jim White

page 2, page 6

keywords: Whute House; bombing of Cambodia; protest; praying; misdemeanor; Secret Service


Cops won't arrest 'deserter'

by Jim Flanagan

page 2

keywords: Jim Christopher; medical discharge; Harrisburg Police Department; Chief of Police Paul King; "pick-up flyer"


Nixon CIA nominee rigged Viet elections

by LNS

page 2, page 9

keywords: William Colby; espionage; South Vietnam; Ngo Dinh Diem; Paul Sakwa; nomination; Operation Phoenix


Montage

page 3

keywords: abortion; Rep. George Gekas; state funds; The Politics of Lying; Government Deception; classified documents; secrecy; striking teachers; unlawful arrest; suit; Philadelphia Police Commissioner Paul O'Neill; movie; "Executive Action"; assassination; President Kennedy; New York City Police Department; surveillance system; Times Square; ACLU; presidential homes


Shell pest strip is unsafe

by Ralph Nader

page 3

keywords: In the Public Interest; mass advertising; insecticide; Public Health Service; Consumer Reports; safety standards


The volunteer army lacks volunteers

by Alan Miller/PNS

page 5

keywords: recruitment goals; enlistment quotas; combat bonus; Army Reserve; National Guard; desertions; President Nixon; Assistant Secretary of Defense Robert T. Kelley; "Army of the poor"


The streets are quiet, is the movement dead?

by Kirkpatrick Sale

page 6, page 8, page 11

keywords: Win; protest; media; student movement; radical movement; local organizing; food co-ops; free schools; people's clinics; counter-culture; Murray Bookchin; SDS; capitalism


'Hammerin' Hank's' got admirers in Harrisburg

by Dick Sassaman

page 7

keywords: Toni Truesdale; art project; Henry Aaron; 'Babe' Ruth; home run record; The House That Ruth Built; silkscreen press; Hank Aaron T-shirts; Hank Aaron Fan Club of Penn Street; 715


Little League is 'no place for girls'

by LNS

page 7

keywords: U. S. Court Judge Barron P. McCume; Pittsburgh; Avonworth Baseball Conference; baseball; discrimination


U.S. corporations battle for underwater minerals

by Roger Gale/Pacific News Service

page 8, page 10

keywords: Howard Hughes; mineral deposits; manganese; cobalt; copper; nickel; San Francisco; undersea mining; international law; territorial waters; Third World nations; marine resources; Chile; Indonesia; Phillipines; Trust Territory of Micronesia


Movies

page 9

keywords: Paper Moon; Tatum O'Neill; Ryan O'Neill; Last Tango in Paris; Marlon Brando; Maria Schneider; Jesus Christ Superstar; Carl Anderson; ted Neeley; Godspell; Christian teachings


Welcome back Penway

page 10

keywords: Thomas Plumber; theater; Black audiences; city limits


Blues for summer: Alligator, Shelter, & ABC

by Dick Sassaman

page 11

keywords: Record Review; blues albums; The Son Seals Blues Band; drummer; guitar; Freddie King; Woman Across the Water; Jimmy Rogers; Gold Tailed Bird; Leon Russell; House Rocker; Muddy Waters; Chicago; 14 Golden Recordings From the Historic Vaults of Duke; Junior Parker; Sometimes Tomorrow My Broken Heart Will Die; Bobby Bland; Call On Me; Big Mama Thornton; Hound Dog; Call On Me


Photos

by Flanagan

page 1, page 4

by White

page 2

by LNS

page 5, page 6

courtesy of Wes Johnson

page 7

by Andre Fanelli

page 11


Artwork

by Suchma

page 3

by LNS

page 8








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