HIP Volume 3, Number 26: April 5, 1974

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.

Screenshot of Volume 3, Number 26 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from April 5, 1974

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