Volume 2, Number 42: July 27 - August 3, 1973
- Harrisburg Independent Press
- Jul 28, 2023
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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.

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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