Volume 3, Number 32: May 17, 1974 - May 24, 1974

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from May 17, 1974 - May 24, 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

Edgemont: A neglected community?

by Jim Zimmerman

page 1, page 4, page 10

keywords: black suburb; Susquehanna Township; water; sewerage; Edgemont Community Improvement Association; insurance; Township Commissioners; Jon Ross; junkyards; abandoned houses; street paving; Robert Peyton; Earl Waters; dog packs; summer program; Local Action Center; black residents

A shooting in Bethesda Mission

by Jim Wiggins

page 2, page 9

keywords: street alcoholics; Odell Oakley; Robert Matthews; no-firearms; Art Klinger; Sunshine House

State police play lengthy games to arrest one gay

by Stan Luxenberg

page 2, page 10

keywords: roadside rest area; I-81; homosexual; solicitation; deviate sexual act; state policeman; ACLU lawyer; George Lindsay; Schuylkill County; Gay Information Service; indecent assault; mental health; entrapment; criminal intent; unconstitutional

SCCP gets slim second year budget

page 2

keywords: School Community Communications Project; Human Relations Council; Tova Tive; drop-out; students; parents; teachers; Harrisburg School District; Information; Advisory Service; Department of Health, Education and Welfare

Fighting Ma Bell

by Ralph Nader

page 3

keywords: telephone companies; How To Cut Costs and Improve Service of Your Telephone, Telex, TWX and Other Telecommunications; business customers; residential customers; tariffs; Western Electric; Yellow Pages

Montage

page 3

keywords: Quote; William F. Buckley; Maurice Stans; Federal Reserve Board; black employees; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; insurance; retail stores; utilities; Justice Department; ABC; CBS; NBC; Sherman Anti-trust Act; "new Army"; ad agency; billboard; Defense Department; recruits; Advertising Age; Environmental Protection Agency; Atomic Energy Commission; environmental impact statement; fast breeder nuclear reactors; Milhous; Dean

A PUC consumer advocate

by Peter Kaplan

page 5

keywords: public utilities; Public Utility Commission; rate increases; Governor Shapp; "consumer counsel"; legislation; "consumer service agency"; Representative Norman Berson; Rep. Eugene Geesey; House Consumer Protection Committee; PUC Chairman Bloom; legislative appropriation

Joe Rhodes: Changing the bail system

by Todd McIntyre

page 6

keywords: Interview; House of Representatives; Allegheny County; House Subcommittee on Corrections; cash bail; criminal justice system; plea bargaining; security; county jails; pretrial detention; Commonwealth v. Truesdale; own recognizance; conditional release; D.A.'s; class oppression

Amnesty

page 8

keywords: meeting; Center for Peace and Justice

Muzak for the masses

by LNS

page 9

keywords: Los Angeles; secretaries; factory workers; Muzak Corp.; work environment; Bob Willard; profit; creative person; brainwashing

Feuilleton

by Dick Sassaman

page 9

keywords: M. Harvey Taylor; Republican politics; Richard Nixon; Cambodian bombing; price fixing; Watergate; Norman Mailer; Publisher's Weekly; Little-Brown; Warner Brothers; National Geographic; Tanna; New Hebrides; John Frum; savior; South Pacific; Sports Illustrated; Sitka, Alaska; Mount Edgecumbe; volcano; Randy Metzger; Score; bisexuality; smoking; sex

Prison Transportation Service

page 10

keywords: Clients of the Judicial System; transportation service; Harrisburg; Rockview; Dallas; Huntington

Alan Price

by Dick Sassaman

page 11

keywords: Music Review; Between Yesterday and Today; soundtrack; O Lucky Man; The Animals; Left Over People; Geordies; England

Books Books Books

by Dick Sassaman

page 11

keywords: The Wrong Season; Joel Oppenheimer; baseball; Village Voice; New York Mets; Willie Mays; Fischer/Spasskey; opening day; fan

Artwork

by Gene Suchma

page 1, page 12

keywords: All In the First Family; Ford; resignation; want ads; U.S. Mail

by Terry Dale

page 9

Photos

by Dave Blake

page 1, page 4

by Jim White

page 6

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