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Volume 4, Number 14: January 10, 1975 - January 17, 1975

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from January 10, 1975 - January 17, 1975, 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 4, Number 14 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from January 10, 1975

Article Index


Report says justice stacked against Blacks

by Jim Zimmerman

page 1, page 2, page 7

keywords: Dauphin County; racial discrimination; criminal justice; "Keeping Score On Crime Control"; police; courts; prison; juvenile delinquency; criminal convictions; burglary; probation; cover-up; District Attorney Leroy Zimmerman; Governor's Justice Commission; Judge Lee J. Swope; robberies; arrests; public defenders; juvenile court; per capita cost; non-status crimes


McGovern at the Farm Show: guns into food

by Jim Wiggins

page 2, page 11

keywords: food crisis; Farm Show Arena; World Food Organization; defense budget; Soviet Union; United States; Congress; Henry Kissinger; malnutrition; General Thieu; American farmers; brunch


Improve the GPO

by Ralph Nader

page 3

keywords: In the Public Interest; Government Printing Office; pamphlet; "Infant Care"; Congressional Record; Federal Register; inflationary pressures; private printers; government printing; Abraham Lincoln; pricing; farmers; consumers; elderly; Joint Committee on Printing; automobile industry


Look what they're saying about us in Boston

page 3

keywords: Boston Globe; Village Voice; Harper's Weekly; Madamoiselle; Harrisburg Independent Press; Stephen Schleshinger; Berrigan Brothers; muckraking spirit; Pennsylvania politicians


Montage

page 3

keywords: California; county officials; pension benefits; Monterey County Sheriff; Gov. Ronald Reagan; "retired"; Federal Appeals Court; Boston; Gay Students Organization; University of New Hampshire; Bovernor Meldrim Thomson; dances; Marlon Brando; Survival of American Indians Association; land; Spiro Agnew; middleman; foreign investors; Walter Dilbeck; coal mine; resort area; Congressman Les Aspin; ceasefire; Southeast Asia; military aid; Gordon Liddy; CBS; "Sixty Minutes"; Attorney General John Mitchell; John Dean; Jeb Magruder; Pres. Nixon


New evidence raises questions in King murder

by Wayne Chastin Jr.

page 4

keywords: Memphis, Tennessee; Shelby County Deputy Sheriff; firearms expert; hearing; due process; James Earl Ray; Percy Foreman; "Raoul"; Assistant Attorney General James Beasley; FBI; ballistics report; frame-up; conspiracy; Robert I. Livingston; "Who Really Killed Dr. King - And the Kennedys"


How elderly poor get screwed on food

page 5

keywords: Kresge's; Market Street; HIP consumer; Weis; supermarket; deviled crabs; ketchup; Ivory liquid; chicken noodle soup; mustard; Nescafe; corn oil; tomato paste; Reynold's wrap; turkey pie; pork and beans; pineapple; beefaroni; mayonnaise; hamburger helper; Quaker oats; cream cheese; French dressing; baggies


Eat vegetarian: live better and help others

page 5

keywords: animal fats; beef; Fast for Famine Relief; Noodle Casserole; Stuffed Green Peppers; cheese; Millet; Eggplant


New Harper's Weekly: 'like talk radio in print'

by Jim Wiggins

page 6

keywords: readers; op-ed; small towns; ozone; spray cans; Environmental Protection Agency; My Lai massacre; CIA; Phoenix program; President Ford; advertising; subscription


Attica trials get underway; one acquitted, two on the block

by LNS

page 6, page 7

keywords: Native American defendants; Vernon LaFranque; Attica uprising; grand jury; William Kuntzler; photos; Buffalo, New York; Attica Brothers Offense/Defense; Charley Joe Pernacilise; John Hill; jury selection; pretrial hearings; William Quinn; Judge Gilbert King; Anthony Simonetti


Feuilleton

by Dick Sassaman

page 7

keywords: Leper Lepellier; Mount Katahdin; A Separate Peace; Cadillac Mountain; New Year's Eve; Acadia National Park; Bar Harbor, Maine; sunrise; United States


Bad year for Vietnam vets

by LNS

page 7

keywords: New York; Vietnam era vets; prisons; suicide; drug overdoses; heroin addiction; "clemency"; National Council for Universal and Unconditional Amnesty; loyalty oaths; "alternative" service; resisters; VA benefits


Stat ban on no-deposits gets nowhere, so far

by Dave Knauss

page 8

keywords: returnable beverage containers; deposit laws; Pennsylvania for Returnables; non-returnable containers; conservation; Representative John F. Laudadio; Stephen R. Reed; littering; American Can Company; energy budget


Black caucus set for January 18

page 8

keywords: Dauphin County Black Political Assembly; political candidates; convention; Main Capitol; Marcia Perkins; John Frye; Roy Hansard; Christopher Quarles


Capitol Insider

by Jim Wiggins

page 8

keywords: Rep. Martin Mullen; Rep. Herbert Fineman; Speaker of the State House of Representatives; Gov, Shapp; AFL-CIO; pornography; abortion; divorce; Mayor Frank Rizzo; Rep. David Richardson; Farm Show; Shapp for President; organized labor; George Meany; waste; bureaucracy; inauguration; viewing stand; Capitol; Third Street


The Funniest Group of People In the World

by Dick Sassaman

page 9

keywords: Monty Python's Flying Circus; Review; BBC-TV; And Now for something Completely Different; WITF-TV; fresh fruit skit; Midnight Special; The Worst of MPFC; Another MP Record; MP's previous Record; Bob and Ray; Jonathan Winters; Firesign Theater; comedy; Carol Cleveland; Neil Innes; The Monty Pythom matching Tie and Handkerchief


Artwork

by Gene Suchma

page 1

keywords: Epiphany Postscript; Christmas story; Bethlehem; Gettysburg; Tower; Wax Museum; Baby Jesus


Photos

by Serbell

page 2


Monty Python's Flying Circus

page 9


Harrisburg Community Theater; "The Taming of the Shrew"

page 11




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