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Volume 3, Number 1: October 5 - October 12, 1973

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from October 5 - October 12, 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 3, Number 1 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from October 5, 1973

Article Index


Farmworkers help picket a Harrisburg A&P

by Jim White

page 2, page 10

keywords: California farmworkers; United Farmworkers; lettuce; grapes; New Cumberland; Cesar Chavez; picket lines; boycott; exploitation


No food for the elderly

by Stan Luxenberg

page 2, page 6

keywords: Meals on Wheels; OEO; Mary LaRue; Sandy Kiren; Don Unak


The people try to void the election

by The Committee to Set Aside the 1972 Election

page 2, page 7

keywords: electronic surveillance; Committee To Re-elect the President; Watergate; Richard Nixon; constitutional violations; free elections; lawsuit


Feuilleton

by Dick Sassaman

page 3, page 6

keywords: Place of Folly; Norman Cousins; enemies; John McPhee; Oranges; ethyline; chlorophyll; New Yorker; HIP; first issue; Peace Center; education; Mark Twain; The Pudd'nhead Wilson Maxims


Banks promote monopolies

by Ralph Nader

page 3

keywords: In the Public Interest; consumer movement; banking industry; "The Dollar Barons"; Christopher Elias; House Banking and Currency Committee; Chairman Wright Patman; Citibank; mergers; investigative books; high interest rates; home mortgage market; "The Bank Book"; Morgan Irving


Getting tough with pushers

by Justin Lewis

page 4, page 10

keywords: state legislature; Sen. Robert A. Rovner; Arlen Specter; Frank Rizzo; law and order; life imprisonment; Pennsylvania; narcotic drugs; heroin; addict; National Council on Marijuana and Drug Abuse; drug treatment; plea bargaining; Council on Drug and Alcohol Abuse


No scholarships for vets with "bad" discharges

by Jim Zimmerman

page 5, page 8

keywords: GI Bill; Vietnam-era veterans; financial aid; less than honorable discharges; drug usage; Pennsylvania legislature; Veterans Education Act; undesirable discharge; bad conduct discharge; general discharge; Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency; Pennsylvania Department of Military Affairs; court martial; amendments


Candidates face the people

by John Serbell

page 5, page 7, page 9

keywords: Greater Harrisburg NAACP; Political Action Committee; Wendell Banks; Harold Swenson; Al Schmidt; mayoral candidates; NAACP President Al Wadley; Stan Lawson; School Director candidate; Olswen Anderson; Wildwood Park; Public Safety Director; residency; Citizens for Responsive Government


Wildwood cleanup

page 7

keywords: Coalition Against Ruining the Environment; Appalachian Trail Club; Citizens for Responsive Government; Liberal Religious Youth; Pennsylvania National Guard; City Parks Department


Montage

by Peter Pero

page 8

keywords: free organ concerts; William Penn Museum; Harris survey; Watergate; Vietnam Veterans Against the War; political enemies; Kent State shootings


Black Oak Arkansas High on the Hog

by Dick Sassaman

page 9

keywords: Hamburg Field House; Uncle Drew


Harrisburg political actions

page 9

keywords: demonstrations; Chile; rally; Federal Building; UFW; Teamsters; boycott; A&P; lettuce; grapes; wine


O Lucky Man

by Dick Sassaman

page 11

keywords: Union Deposit Cinemas; Maclcolm McDowell; Alan Price; Lindsay Anderson; Mick Travis; multiple characters; The Animals; State of Seige; Costa- Gravas; Uruguay; Tupamaros; Dan Mitrione; political assassination; American Film Institute; Kennedy Center; Mikis Theodorakis


Photos

by LNS

page 2

courtesy of John Sinclair

page 4


Artwork

by Gene Suchma

page 3, page 12








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