Volume 3, Number 39: July 5, 1974 - July 12, 1974
- Harrisburg Independent Press
- Jul 31, 2023
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Updated: Mar 17
This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from June July 5, 1974 - July 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.

Article Index
Redevelopment Authority tears down a block
by Stan Luxenberg
page 1, page 2, page 9
keywords: Rev. John Potter; North Fifth Street; Asbury Carter; Louis Milan; Harrisburg Redevelopment Authority; housing project; open space; "blighted; Progress Plaza; Nixon administration; moratorium; subsidies; developer
State opens super prison for dangerous inmates
by Jim Wiggins
page 2
keywords: Bureau of Corrections; maximum security prison; Waymart, Pa.; Commissioner Werner; prison violence; murder; psychiatric counseling
Highway money used for bikes and buses
by Peter Kaplan
page 2, page 6
keywords: Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act; federal highway budget; mass transit; car pools; Harrisburg Energy Action Program; Joan Harms; bicycle paths; Capitol Area Transit; gasoline shortages; Governor's Energy Council; state employees; bus loading platform; transit guide; Employer Program for Energy Conservation
Corporate cooperation
by Ralph Nader
page 3
keywords: In the Public Interest; corporate socialism; competition; Consolidated Edison; Federal Reserve; corpoate welfare; Civil Areonautics Board; oil industry; tax reductions; monopolistic practices; corpoate collusion; General Motors; Treasury Secretary William Simon
Montage
page 3
keywords: Quote; Attorney General William Saxbe; sentences; CH 47 Chinook helicopter; Jones Beach; classified material; Nike-Hercules base; nuclear missle batteries; November election; U.S. Senate; Florida; Glen Turner; Edward Gurney; criminal charges; indictment; Watergate Committee; Dr. Herbert Rie; Ohio State University; stimulant drugs; attention span; children; Iowa Test of Basic Skills; "hyperactivity"; "information processing"
Black film festival: alternatives to Superfly
page 4
keywords: black filmmakers; education; entertainment; Black American Film Festival; Paul Robeson; Annenberg Center; "The Emporer Jones"; Philadelphia Black Film Festival 1973; Penny Hord; William Penn Museum; "Scar of Shame"; "Spying the Spy"; "St. Lopuis Blues"; Bessie Smith; "Story of a Three Day Pass"; Melvin Van Peebles; "Sojourn"; "Blood's Way"; "As Above, So Below"
Goldwater's brother accused of smuggling illegal workers
by El Malcriado/LNS
page 4
keywords: Bob Goldwater; Senator Barry Goldwater; Mexican "illegals"; farmworkers; United Farm Workers; labor contractors; Arrowhead Ranch; strikebreakers; grape vineyards; minimum wage laws; foreman
Iran gets mired in its Arabian "Vietnam"
page 5
keywords: guerillas; Dhofar; Oman; Straits of Hormuz; Shah; Persian Gulf; "Nixon Doctrine"; U.S. aid; Bahrain; naval base; Omani fishing; Indian Ocean; arms smuggling; Del Monte; FMC Int.; Mardela International; Sultan Quaboos; Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arabian Gulf
100 sailors leave USS Midway in protest
by LNS
page 6
keywords: aircraft carrier; Yokosuka Naval Base; living conditions; harassment; press conference; black sailors; racism; Captain R.J. Shulte; walkout; Korea; Indonesia; Phillipines; Indochina; Japanese protest; homeporting
Belated Justice Sought for Black Activists in North Carolina
by Frye Gaillard
page 8
keywords: Governor James Holshouser; Black activists; Charlotte, N.C.; commutation; T.J. Reddy; James Earl Grant; Charles Parker; immunity; witnesses; Lazy B riding stable; arson; Walter David Washington; Theodore Alfred Hood
Join the conspiracy against US policy
page 9
keywords: trial; South Vietnamese Overseas Procurement Office; blood; Federal District Court; Rockwell Industries; weapons; tiger cage; General Thieu;
Mitch Snyder; Ned Murphy; Debbie Daniell; Mike Bucci; Judge John Pratt
Nixon's nuclear diplomacy
page 9
keywords: Egypt-U.S. friendship agreement; Presidents Sadat; foreign policy; impeachment; Joint Committee on Atomic Energy; nuclear technology; China; India; President Nixon; detente; Soviet Union; Middle East; Kissinger
Two first-rate fictional conspiracies - Movies
by Dick Sassaman
page 11
keywords: The Sting; Charley Varrick; Chinatown; Roman Polanski; Jack Nicholson; Faye Dunaway; Los Angeles; Jake Gittes; private eye; Dashiell Hammett; Raymond Chandler; Chinatown; barbarism
Two first-rate fictional conspiracies - Books
by Dick Sassaman
page 11
keywords: Winter Kills; Richard Condon; political cover-up; The Manchurian Candidate; Nick Kegan; Tim Kegan; president; Pickering Commission; Willie Arnold; Joe Diamond; murder weapon; assassination; American tragedy
Photos
by John Serbell
page 1
by Ferdinand Fairfax
page 11
Artwork
by Harrison
page 5
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