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Volume 3, Number 3: October 19 - October 26, 1973

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from October 19 - October 26, 1973, 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 3 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from October 19, 1973

Article Index


"Why not MAKE MONEY while learning to write?"

by Dick Sassaman

page 1, page 5

keywords: Dean R. Koontz; science fiction; Star Quest; pornography; The Haunted Carnival; Randon House; Bobbs-Merrill; pseudonyms; K. R. Dwyer; Robert Heinlein; school teacher; Mechanicsburg; writer


Four films

page 1

keywords: Vietnam Veterans Against the War; Vietnam; Black Americans


Can Harrisburg treat ex-mental patients?

by Marty Peterson

page 3, page 10

keywords: Harrisburg State Hospital; mental health institutions; community based programs; Harrisburg Hospital Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center; Goodwill Industries; Dauphin County Community Resource Service; Aurora Club; Jerry Brennan; State, County and Municipal Employees Union


State gives cheap loans to giant corporations

by Stan Luxenberg

page 2, page 7

keywords: Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority; RCA; Westinghouse; American Can; Senator Henry Messinger; Fruehauf Corp.; Olivetti Underwood; Puritan Fashios Corp.; industry; jobs


Feminizing local school boards

by Hannah Leavitt

page 2, page 7, page 8, page 10

keywords: HIP interview; Harrisburg Women's Political Caucus; school board elections; Linda Lotz; Esther Richwine; Susquehanna Township; Central Dauphin School Distyrict; curriculum; sex discrimination; teacher union; counselors; reading; sports; student rights; sex education; drug education


Montage

page 3

keywords: Joseph Ball; Tony Russo; Daniel Ellsburg; Agnew; John Ehrlichman; Union Deposit Mall; Central Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Council; union labor; Last Tango in Paris; proof of age; Toronto City Council; high rise construction; Chile; junta; President Salvador Allende; censorship; political prisoners


A deadly game cops play

by Ralph Nader

page 3

keywords: In the Public Interest; high-speed police chases; speed governors; police departments; Department of Transportation; "hot" pursuit


The role of the planner

by Ambrose Klain and Jim Wiggins

page 3, page 9

keywords: American Institute of Planners; public housing; slum clearance; Model Cities; urban decay; "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"; social change; education; employment; Cleveland, Ohio; public park; Harrisburg's West Shore; shopping center; zoning; property tax policies; minority interests


Law & order in Harrisburg: a complex question

by Steve Murray

page 4

keywords: law enforcement; public relations; minority police officers; Police Chief Paul D. King; uniformed policemen; discrimination; foot patrol


School rules virgins only as homecoming queens

by LNS

page 4

keywords: Urbana, Ohio; Urbana High School; U.S. District Court; School Superintendent


Welfare: getting the rent money

by Jim Zimmerman

page 6, page 8

keywords: public assistance; Robert J. Hanna; Stepen R. Reed; Chairman of the Dauphin County Board of Assistance; rent deductions; Harrisburg Housing Authority; slum landlords; rent withholding program; welfare recipients


Boycott these wines

by LNS

page 6

keywords: United Farmworkers; iceberg lettuce; grapes; Gallo wines; Franzia Bros. wines; White River Farms


Citizens endorse local candidates

page 7

keywords: Citizens for Responsive Government; progressive candidates; Harold A. Swenson; Stanley R. Lawson; Herbert Goldstein; James Saxton; City Council; revenue sharing; mass transportation; housing; Kathy McCaughin


The kindred spirit of Nixon, Agnew & Ford

by Justin Lewis

page 11

keywords: Book review; The Washington Pay-Off; Robert N. Winter-Berger; President Nixon; Gerald R. Ford; Spiro Agnew; Nathan Voloshen-John McCormick scandal; bigotry


Photos

by Jim White

page 1, page 2, page 7

by LNS

page 2

coutesy of the Harrisburg Police Department

page 4


Artwork

by LNS

page 3, page 6








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