This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from April 5, 1974 - April 12, 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
Preserving downtown: saving the State Theater
by Jim Zimmerman
page 1, page 2, page 9
keywords: Penn-Harris Hotel; Orpheum Theater Association; Ronn Fink; Pennsylvania Rural Electric Association; United Artist; Ron Stoner; Friends and Residents of Harrisburg; William Matson; live shows; motion pictures; Representative George Gekas; Historic Harrisburg Association; preservation
Shipoke houses go for sale
by Stan Luxenberg
page 2, page 10
keywords: flood plain ordinance; City Council; Redevopment Authority; flood housing; city housing code; South Harrisburg Restoration Association; Joe Egresitz; 100 year flood line
Citywide cleanup starts Uptown
page 2
keywords: Harrisburg Uptown Neighbors Together; Harrisburg High football team; Uptown Merchants Association; clean up campaign; streets; storefronts
Challenging the railroads
by Ralph Nader
page 3
keywords: In the Public Interest; Regional Rail Organization Act; Interstate Commerce Commission; railway system; public hearings; United States Railway Association; outreach program; passengers
Montage
page 3
keywords: Quote; soft ball; Yogi Berra; Spiro T. Agnew; house; Indochina; Vietnam vets; Richard Nixon; educational benefits; less than honorable discharges; Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; sterilization; Judge Gerhard Gesell; welfare recipients; State Supreme Court; Barnes & Tucker Coal Co.; Susquehanna River; mine acid drainage; clean up; Little League Baseball; National Organization for Women; baseball; sex discrimination; Hoboken, New Jersey; Zoe Joyner; California; high school student; California; beauty contest
Is this Harrisburg, or the Land of Oz?
page 4
keywords: Commentary; Uptown Harrisburg; Redevelopment Authority; "illustrated site plan"; Nixon administration; Louis Milan; city planner
Electrial union members protest inflation profits
by LNS
page 5
keywords: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers; Washington; inflation; corporate profits; demonstration; lobbying; union members; fuel industry; congressional representatives; Westinghouse; General Electric
Feuilleton
by Dick Sassaman
page 5
keywords: The Last Words (Real and Traditional) of Distinguished Men and Women; William Collingborn; King Humbert I; last words; Spinoza; death; Aeschylus
Huckstering baby bottles
by Philip West/PNS
page 6
keywords: baby formulas; Enfamil; Similac; Asia; Latin America; Middle East; Africa; advertisement; World Health Organization; death rate; Third World countries; Bristol Myers; Abbott Laboratories
High grocery bills
by LNS
page 6
keywords: Dade County Community Action Agency; food costs; poor people; neighborhood stores; supermarket chains; inner city stores; shopping centers
Pill problems
by Ingrid Gleeson
page 6
keywords: anemia; birth control pills; B2; B6; B12; dietary supplement; pregnancy
The Sears strike: workers challenge the chain stores
by PNS
page 9
keywords: Sears Roebuck and Company; San Francisco; Federated Department Stores; local unions; retail store workers; Department Store Employees Union; health coverage; conglomerates
SLA influence spreads through California prisons
by Mark Shwartz/Sandy Close/PNS
page 10
keywords: August 7th Guerilla Movement; communique; Patricia Hearst; kidnapping; prison officials; Vacaville prison; Venceremos; Thero Wheeler; assassination; Oakland Schools
Jazz: Keith Jarrett & the ECM label
by Dick Sassaman
page 11
keywords: Charles Lloyd Quartet; piano; Expectations; Fort Yawuh; Ruta and Daitya; Jack DeJohnette; Chick Corea; Piano Improvisations, Volume I; Return To Forever; David Holland; Conference of the Birds; Robin Kenyatta; Girl from Martinique; The New Quartet; Gary Burton; Crystal Silence; Horace Silver; In Pursuit of the 27th Man; Latent Image; New Jazz Quartet
Artwork
by Gene Suchma
page 1
keywords: Say It Ain't So...Dick; George Allen; Washington Redskins; back taxes
Photos
by Jim White
page 1, page 2
by John Serbell
page 2
by LNS
page 5, page 6
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