Volume 3, Number 50: September 27, 1974 - October 4, 1974

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from September 27, 1974 - October 4, 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

A rail transit plan for greater Harrisburg

by John Serbell

page 1, page 2, page 6

keywords: Harley Swift; Harrisburg Railways; Harrisburg City Council; Capitol Area Transit; rail transportation; Middletown; Mechanicsburg; Hershey; Fort Hunter; Harrisburg Area Transit Study; automobile congestion; Urban Mass Transit Association; PennDOT; Dauphin and Cumberland Counties

New Sunshire law opens City Council

by Jim Zimmerman

page 2

keywords: Harrisburg City Council; Executive Session; news media; Leon Feinerman; Miriam Menaker; Citizens for Responsive Government; Kathy McCaughin; Attorney General Israel Packel; Paul Doutrich; City Zoning Code; Incinerator Fund; Board of Historical Architectural Review

Ford's amnesty program gets cold reception in Pennsylvania

by Stephen Sartarelli

page 2

keywords: conditional amnesty; Selective Service System; deserter; alternative service; clemency discharge; Clemency Board; undesirable discharge; V.A. medical care; GI bill; Jim Christopher; Donald C. Croushore

Corporate tax welfare

by Ralph Nader

page 3

keywords: In the Public Interest; Corporate income tax; corporate profits; "loopholes"; 'deepletion allowances'; 'investment tax credits'; individual tax; multinational companies; export promotion; subsidies

Montage

page 3

keywords: sixties; Allen Ginsburg; Jerry Rubin; acid; Timothy Leary; grand jury; San Francisco; jail sentence; drug possession; Sailor; Tim Nunley; Navy doctors; lawsuit; cancer; Ralph Nader; Public Citizen Visitor's Center; tourists; Washington, D.C.; Future Thought; Dog Catsup; food products; TV personalities; G.I Joe; Food for Kids; 'C-Rations; Chile; Seymour Hersh; strikes; Allende government; CIA; covert operations; opium trade; Burma; Albania; Nationalist Chinese troops; Huk guerillas; Ramon Magsaysay; Iranian Premier Mohammed Mossadegh; Shah of Iran; oil industry; Guatemalan government; bombers; Indonesian President Sukarno; Congolese government; Ecuador; Bolivia; Che Guevara

Letters To the Editors

page 3, page 5

keywords: Indian crafts; Jimmy Little Turtle; American Indian Day; Pennsylvania; pow-wow; arts and crafts show; jewelry; RIP-OFF; Indian charities; Rev. Emmett Hoffman; New Cumberland

Why the Republicans want Shapp's tax returns

by Jim Wiggins

page 4

keywords: Capitol Insider; Gov. Milton Shapp; gubernatorial election; Secretary of Property and Supplies; Frank Hilton; insurance contract; income tax retutns; campaign financing; Richard Nixon; Spiro Agnew; kickbacks; construction; highway maintenance; Rockford Insurance Company; Gleason Committee; Drew Lewis

HIP compares prices of non-food items

page 5

keywords: soap; paper products; A&P; Pantry Pride; Weis; Superthrift; Pathmark; Acme; Giant; Warehouse Food Mart; cleanser; dishwash liquid; bleach; Ivory Snow; laundry det.; Saran Wrap; Glad bags; bathroom tissue; aluminum foil; paper twls.

Theater: The Pleasure of his Company

by Dick Sassaman

page 1, page 6, page 8

keywords: Samuel Taylor; Cornelia Otis Skinner; Harrisburg Community Theater; San Francisco; Chuck Rice; James Crispen; Carol Jones; Carol Cunningham; Roger Henderson; grandfather; human relationships; emotions; happiness

Theater: Harvey

by Dick Sassaman

page 1

keywords: Local Theater; Little Theater of Mechanicsburg; Mary Chase; Elwood Dowd; Gene Smith; Jimmy Stewart; pooka; white rabbit; Kitty Knox; Linda Lynch; Veta Louise; Bob Myers; psychiatrist

New Left Notes

Reprinted from WIN/LIP

page 9

keywords: resistance; revolution; reform; war resisters; Judge John Pratt; Center for Creative Nonviolence; probation; protest; blood pouring; federal funds; abortion; hospital; clinic; I.U.D.; morning after pills; U.S. Senate; House of Representatives; House-Senate Conference Committee; Sen. Richard Schweiker; Week of Concern; amnesty; Tiger Cage; South Vietnamese political prisoners; Thieu regime; Attica Brothers; prosecution; New York State Supreme Court; possession of a firearm; prison contraband; Sodomy law; Lancaster County Court; homosexual activity; Pennsylvania Station; unconstitutional; William W. Stainton; private sexual behavior; LIP; Wounded Knee; Dennis J. Banks; Russell C. Means; Judge Fred J. Nichol; charges; acquitted; WIN

A Strategy for the Seventies

by Tom Hayden/American Report

page 9, page 10

keywords: inflation; energy; war; Nixon doctrine; cold war; diplomacy; China; Soviet Union; "detente"; foreign policy; populist insurgency; Kissinger; civil rights movement; Indochina; war economy; multinational corporation; dictatorial regimes; military spending

U.S. labor group helps CIA in Latin America

by Rodney Larson

page 10

keywords: AFSCME; AFL-CIO; covert activity; San Jose; American Institute for Free Labor Development; United Fruit; ITT; Kennecot; Anaconda; Brazil; Dominican Republic; Guyana; Chile; labor movement; Allende; unions; Committee for an All-Labor AIFLD; booklet

Frankensteins A Movie

by Dick Sassaman

page 11

keywords: Review; Mary Shelley; books; music; films; Andy Warhol; Mel Brooks; Paul Morrissey; Peter Boyle; Gene Wilder; Young Frankenstein; The Baron; Otto; Udo Kier; Joe Dallesandro; Frankenstein

Frankensteins A Book

by Dick Sassaman

page 11

keywords: Frankenstein Unbound; Brian W. Aldiss; Preidential advisor; Joe Bodenland; Switzerland; Lake Geneva; Baron Frankenstein

Movies What's Up Doc?

by Dick Sassaman

page 11

keywords: Barbra Streisand; Bringing Up Baby; Peter Bogdanovich; jewels; top secrets; Ryan O'Neal; Judge Maxwell; Liam Dunn; Madeline Kahn; love story; "Love means never having to say you're sorry."

Photos

by Flanagan

page 2

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