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Volume 3, Number 29: April 26, 1974 - May 3, 1974

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from April 26, 1974 - May 3, 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 29 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from April 26, 1974

Article Index


Uptown residents charge police brutality

by Peter Kaplan

page 1, page 2, page 10

keywords: firemen; police; police conduct; Penn St.; Philip Hicks; Gary Weiss; Kenneth Deavers; Captain C.V. Fasasuli; Patrolman Ronald Parrish; aggravated assault and battery; mace; Firefighter John Brindle


Saving Harrisburg housing

by Stan Luxenberg

page 2, page 10

keywords: Community Development Forum; "redlined"; federal government; local banks; code enforcement; non-profit housing corporation; Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency; City Council; Bruce Martin; city planner


Hiding conctraceptives in New York

by LNS

page 2

keywords: pharmacy shelves; New York State Assembly; promiscuity; Assemblywoman Constance E. Cook; bill


How to beat City Hall

by Ralph Nader

page 3

keywords: Citizens Action Program; Chicago; reform; scandals; corruptions; business; government; U.S. Steel; Consolidated Edison; property tax; 'redlining'; mass transit; judges; fuel prices; drug prices; boarded-up houses; Studs Terkel


Montage

page 3

keywords: Quote; Senator Edward Gurney; public office; hormones; expectant mothers; South Africa; IQ's; normal intelligence; Dr. Peter Baillie; chronionic; gonadatrophin; Marine Corps; high school graduates; Congress; U.S. Federal Judge Robert Merhige; General Electric; women employees; pregnancy; compensation; sick leave; class action suit; President; taxes; donations; silent majority; Victor DeCosta; cowboy; Paladin; Have Gun, Will Travel; CBS; U.S. Magistrate Jacob Hagopian; monetary settlement


Some Harrisburg veterans need amnesty

by Jim Zimmerman

page 2, page 6

keywords: Vietnam veteran; undesirable discharge; employment; drugs; heroin; less than honorable discharges; VA medical benefits; Discharge Review Board; Defense Secretary Melvin Laird; GI bill; Vietnam War; Jeff Wighaman; bad conduct discharge; dishonorable discharge; Edward Smith; deserters; Tom Glaspen; James Christopher; Vietnam Veterans Against the War; AWOL


Londonderry: putting a philosophy to the test

by Jean MacLachan

page 5

keywords: free school; teachers; behavior; parent/teachers; Meetings


Truce in Laos: the Pathet Lao take over

by John Everingham/PNS

page 6

keywords: Vientiane, Laos; coalition government; Prince Souphannouvong; Prince Souvanna Phouma; nationalism; Buddhism; South Vietnam; Cambodia; China; Royalists


March to Impeach Nixon

page 8

keywords: Washington, DC; Repression; Democratic Rights; Capitol; Impeachment Committee of Greater Harrisburg; Dave Dellinger; Phil Ochs; Congressman Parren Mitchell; Delores Huerta; Beulah Saunders


Wounded Knee judge accuses FBI of misconduct

by LNS

page 9

keywords: Judge Fred Nichol; Dennis Banks; Russell Means; American Indian Movement; evidentiary hearing; Attica; Mark Lane; Sioux Falls, S.D.; illegal search or seizure; Wesley Bad Heart Bull; Custer, S.D.; Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Offense Committee


Harrisburg All-Artists Union

page 9

keywords: performing arts; visual arts; communicative arts; crafts; National Arts Union; benefits; funds; workshops; cooperatives; dance; drama; choral group; HAAU Mural Collective; Sheron Ahment; James Calvin; Penny Hord; Gene Suchma; Lance Ulen; Tony Truesdale


French immigrants strike to win jobs

by LNS

page 10

keywords: Paris; workers; hunger strike; unemployment; fair wages; job security; housing; residence permits; discrimination; meetings; leaflets; Pakistani; Moroccan; Tunisian; Mauratian; wok force


Theater: HCT's Last of the Red Hot Lovers

LTM's Wait Until Dark

by Dick Sassaman

page 11

keywords: Review; Harrisburg Community Theater; Little Theater of Mechanicsburg; Jerome Giddings; Frederick Knott; Neil Simon; Barney Cashman; W. Ronald Kresge; fish restaurant; romantic affair; Elaine; Ann Sandnes Landis; Bobbi; Jeannine McGoldrick; Shirley Disend; Jeanette Fisher; sexual revolution; blind woman; small girl; heroin; Susy; Darlene Crawford; Sam; Jim Lynch; Gloria; Patricia Campbell; Josh Hoffman; Jim Welshans; Bob Crawford; attempted murder


Artwork

by Gene Suchma

page 1, page 9

keywords: Kitsch Kitsch; kissathon; Henry Kissinger; streaking


Photos

by John Serbell

page 2


by Van Vorhees

page 2


by Jamison

page 5


by LNS

page 6, page 10








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