Volume 3, Number 28: April 19, 1974 - April 26, 1974

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from April 19, 1974 - April 26, 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

Confessions of a state police informer

by Jim Zimmerman

page 1, page, page 10

keywords: Tony Furjanic; drug traffic; State Police Narcotics Section; Corporal Ronald Prough; marijuana; amphetamine; support payments; narcotics investigation; informer

Who listens to tenants?

by Stan Luxenberg

page 2

keywords: public housing; Harrisburg Housing Authority; Mayor Swenson; board of directors; Tenants Association; Viola Allen; Corky Goldstein

Freedom of information

by Ralph Nader

page 3

keywords: Freedom of Information Act; Justice Department; health; safety; agency officials; law suit; secrecy; Senator Edward Kennedy

Montage

page 3

keywords: Quote; John Wayne; IRS; Sen. Lowell Weicker; Internal Revenue Service; Harrisburg NOW; Anna-Lisa Smoker; Midget League; girls; Pennsylvania Air National Guard; hair; wig; U.S. Court of Appeals; Australia; deserter; U.S. Army; Indochina War; immolation; Park Chung Hee; South Korean; dissidents; Buddhist monks; Indochina War; Patriot News Editor; obituary; canoeists; Susquehanna

A coal town fiddler keeps on playing

by Mike Christensen

page 4

keywords: Harold Carney; bluegrass group; coal mines; black coal dust; Armstrong County; fiddle players; fiddlin' contests; Black Lung disease; Black Lung bill

Harrisburg women's art show

by Janet Beals

page 5

keywords: Harrisburg East Mall; Harrisburg Women's Center; sexism; Betsy Oberheim; jewelry; macrame hangings; Lu Stone; clothing; painting; woodcuts; Sheron Ahment; photographs; Tony Truesdale; silkscreens; sculpture; weaving; political artists; Harrisburg Women's Rights Movement; counseling; YWCA

Feuilleton

by Dick Sassaman

page 5

keywords: Alfred Hitchcock; Psycho; novel; Robert Bloch; terror; suspense; Robin Wood; Hitchcock's Films; TV commercial; Tony Perkins; Janet Leigh; Martin Balsam; Rock Concert; Rolling Stones; Norman Bates; Mick Jagger

More law'n order from the Watergate folks

by Peter Kaplan

page 6

keywords: Criminal Code Reform Act; anti-crime legislation; death penalty; National Committee Against Repressive Legislation; pornography; speech; press; petition; non-violent protest; military personnel; demonstration; felonies; espionage; marijuana; Nixon administration

GI faces murder trial

page 9

keywords: Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Melvin Smith; enlisted man; medical care; psychiatric treatment; amnesia; general court-martial; Quang Tri; Vietnam; insanity; murder; life imprisonment; sanity board hearing; Rep. Ronald Dellums; Edward Kopanski; trial

Capitol Insider

by Jim Wiggins

page 9

keywords: Rev. Jesse Jackson; Harrisburg; Black Caucus; People United To Save Humanity; civil rights movement; Black ministers; workers; grassroots community groups; social justice; revenue sharing; "social audits"; political machines; welfare; Black leadership; Tom Bradley; impeachment; Nixon; Watergate

Harrisburg sweeps County track meet

by J. Morris

page 10

keywords: Harrisburg Cougars; Dauphin County Invitational Track Meet; school records; relay teams; 2-mile teams; 100 yard dash; pole vault; Harrisburg High; Norm Mitchell; Masters Mile; Larry Brady; Len Wilkerson; Roy Purdy

Easter in DC

page 10

keywords: blood; Good Friday; Vietnam Overseas Procurement Office; Vietnam; weapons; non-violent resistance; Paris Peace Accords; Easter morning service; Father James LaCroce; Philip Berrigan; Elizabeth McAlister; Mike Bucci; Edward Murphy; Mitch Snyder; Debbie Daniel; arrest

Two heroic sagas

by Dick Sassaman

page 11

keywords: Movie Review; Blazing Saddles; Mel Brooks; cowboy movies; The Producers; The Twelve Chairs; Dom DeLuise; Zero Mostel; Cleavon Little; Gene Wilder; Frankie Laine; The Three Musketeers; adventure movie; Alexandre Dumas; Athos; Porthos; Aramis; D'Artagnan; Michael York; The Revenge of Milady; duels; Charlton Heston; Racquel Welch; Faye Dunaway

Artwork

by Gene Suchma

page 1

keywords: Out of His League; team; baseball; girl; Eileen Toth

by Toni Truesdale

page 5

HIP Vol 3 No 28.

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