Volume 3, Number 25: March 29, 1974 - April 5, 1974
- Harrisburg Independent Press
- Jul 30, 2023
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Updated: Feb 18
This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from March 29, 1974 - April 5, 1974, 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
B'nai B'rith Apartments: Will the rents go up?
by Stan Luxenberg
page 1, page 4
keywords: city government; management; taxes; rents; fixed income; C. Eugene Erb; elderly; Presbyterian Apartments; Mayor Swenson; City Council; Charles Friedman; Four Freedoms; courts
MAN OWES ELECTRIC BILL, JUDGE GIVES HIM THE CHAIR!!!
by R.C. Filburn
page 1
keywords: Imaginary news item; future; Pennsylvania legislature; death penalty; "electric bench"; prisoners; Joint Committee on Sacrificing for the Energy Crisis; energy savings
Ralph Nader
Farmers attack DER's strict migrant rules
page 2
Keywords: Department of Environmental Resources; migrant labor camps; migrant labor bill; farmers; housing; Keith Eckels; energy crisis; Tim Weston
Justice Department attacks PUC: opening closed doors
by Stan Luxenberg
page 2, page 9
keywords: Bell Telephone; Public Utility Commission; Commissioner Louis J. Carter; Commonwealth Court; rate increase; consumers; confidential information; hearing examiner; transportation; taxicab companies
The new student activists
by Ralph Nader
page 3
keywords: In the Public Interest; college student; New York Public Interest Research Group; New York State Legislature; voting record; open meetings; government records; lobbying; ballot issues; candidates; legislative committees; consumer protection; tax inequity
Montage
page 3
keywords: Quote; Senator James Buckley; resignation; Richard Nixon; Pennsylvania Senate; Sen. Charles Dougherty; abortion; husband; abortion referral agencies; advertising; Superior Court Judge David Norman; prostitution atatutes; male customers; Tennessee Senate; Equal Rights Amendment; Les Aspin; Edward Koch; Representatives; "unsuitability"; coding; Judge Gerhard Gesell; less than honorable discharges; Senate Judiciary Committee on Constitutional Rights; FBI; fingerprints; data banks; "criminal history"; law enforcement agencies; Defense Department; F-15; B-1 bomber; Rep. Les Aspin; cost over-run
Women's Day in Italy, Australia and Vietnam
by LNS
page 5
keywords: International Women's Day; March 8; Ravenna, Italy; divorce law; Naples, Italy; housing; Sydney, Australia; health center; Bidura Children's Shelter; demonstrations; Melbourne, Australia; Hanoi; South Vietnam Liberation Women's Union; Nguyen Thi Dinh
Feuilleton
by Dick Sassaman
page 5
keywords: Ralph Ginzburg; EROS; FACT; obscenity; Sloan Wilson; "America's Hospitals: Undercure In an Age of Overkill; Defense; Who killed Kennedy?; Warren Report; Atlanta Braves; Henry Aaron; Senior Editor Robert W. Creamer; Sports Illustrated; Babe Ruth; home run record
Marcos involved in organized crime deal
by PNS
page 6
keywords: Ferdinand Marcos; Phillipines; San Francisco; CEMI; stock manipulation; Robert Duane Ferrell; law enforcement agencies; grand jury; SEC; organized crime; "shell" companies; fraud
Members of Chicano alternative school acquitted
by LNS
page 9
keywords: La Escuela Tonantzia; Santa Fe; assault; police officers; justifiable homicide; vandalism; Santa Fe police; New Mexico State Police; Santa Fe County Sheriff's Department; Linda Montoya
PR from the oil companies
by LNS
page 10
keywords: oil industry; energy crisis; advertising campaign; business expense; IRS; deduction; television commercial; Mobil Oil; Exxon; electrical utilities; Federal Trade Commission; Richard Herzog
Mississippi Blues in Three Different Styles
by Dick Sassaman
page 11
keyDick Watermanwords: L.A.; Chicago; Ireland; Mel Brown; Big Foot City Girl; Impulse; Chicken Fat; Johnny Otis Band; The Olympics; T-Bone Walker; Bea Brown; Natural Boogie; Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers; jazz; Ann Arbor Blues Festival; Alligator Records; Rory Gallagher; Blueprint; Tattoo; Midnight Special; Ross Spengler; music promoter
Photos
by Dave Blake
page 1, page 4
by Jim Flanagan
page 2
by LNS
page 2, page 5, page 6, page 8
by Dick Waterman
page 11
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