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Volume 4, Number 16: January 24, 1975 - January 31, 1975

Updated: Jun 28

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from January 24, 1975 - January 31, 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 16 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from January 24, 1975

Article Index


Here and elsewhere, Ford's amnesty a bust

by Jim Zimmerman

page 1, page 2, page 7

keywords: "earned re-entry"; Pennsylvania Selective Servie Director; alternative service; draft resisters; military deserters; Clemency Board; "clemency" discharge; less than honorable discharges; American Civil Liberties Union; AWOL; Charles Goodell; universal, unconditional amnesty; Philip Alford


Are Lebanon schools sexist?

by Lorraine Cross

page 1, page 2, page 11

keywords: National Organization for Women; North Lebanon School District; discrimination; Department of Justice; hiring practices; athletic programs; women's history; school board meeting; Lebanon Daily News; sexism; vocational classes; parents; students; administration


Keeping watch on bodily functions in Lancaster

page 2

keywords: suit; U.S. District Court; city police; surveillance; public restrooms; Long Park; railroad station; peepholes; homosexual activity; illegal drugs


Learning about food

by Ralph Nader

page 3

keywords: In the Public Interest; Russian grain deal; nutrition; consumers; additives; price; quality; food cooperatives; Center for Science In the Public Interest; Food Day; world famine


Letters

page 3

keywords: Joel Roth; alternative newspaper; international stories; "holier than thou"; "red herring"


Capitol Insider

by Jim Wiggins

page 3

keywords: Governor Shapp; inauguration; Sen. Frank Mazzei; Lt. Gov. Ernie Kline; kickbacks; convicted felon; Sec. Frank Hilton; Department of Property and Supplies; Reserve Insurance Company; insurance broker; Atty. Gen. Robert Kane; corruption; automobiles


The economy at a glance

page 3

keywords: corporate profits; workers' wages


Montage

page 4

keywords: Mayday 1971; Capitol steps; U.S. District Court; civil suit; damages; American Civil Liberties Union; SSI benefits; Pennsylvania Association of Older Persons; cost of living; inflation; Patriot Evening News; Governor's Justice Commission; NAACP: racial inequality; justice; Dauphin County; Dalkon Shield; interuterine contraceptive devices; A. H. Robbins Company; abortions; U.S. Agency for International Development; FDA; vaginal deodorant sprays; National Organization for Women; advertising; Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; Pennsylvania Department of Welfare; abortions; migrant worker; housing; public hearings; prescription drug abuse; nursing homes; tranquilizers; kickbacks; Senate Special Committee on Aging


Not just another pretty face

page 4

keywords: Miss America; Shirley Cothran; billboards; outdoor advertising; Institute of Outdoor Advertisers


Warmed-over recommendations for more minority police

by John Serbell

page 4, page 11

keywords: Harrisburg Human Relations Commission; hiring practices; community relations officers; Mayor Harold Swenson; discriminatory; Public Safety Director Straub


Pictures from an inauguration

page 5

keywords: National Guard; bandleader; Gov. Shapp; ceremony


Comparative meat prices at 5 markets

page 5

keywords: Weis; Pantry Pride; Sav-Mor; Lenker's Beef; Pathmark; HIP consumer; pork; spare ribs; bacon; ham; pork chops; lamb; beef; sirloin; porterhouse; ; rib eye


Washington actions to focus on Indochina war

by Merrie Mangold

page 6

keywords: Vietnam War; "The Assembly To Save the Peace Agreement"; Paris Peace Accords; conference; demonstration; lobbying; White House; "Strategy To End the War"; "The Winning of Hearts and Minds"; National Council for Universal Unconditional Amnesty; Gold Star Parents for Amnesty


Proof that U.S. violates Paris Peace Agreement

by Richard Boyle/Pacific News Service

page 6

keywords: Cambodia; U.S. Air Force; Chuck Bernard; Operation SCOOT; CIA; journalists; cargo planes; Phantom jets


Feuilleton

by Dick Sassaman

page 7

keywords: Jorge Luis Borges; Nobel Prize in Literature; Swedish Academy; Formenter Prize; Samuel Beckett; Queen of England; P.J. Wodehouse; Roger Bannister; knighthood; German propaganda; Nazis; Foreign Minister Anthony Eden; treason; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


Recycled paper loses to raw pulp

by Carol Chromicky

page 7

keywords: Capitol Area Recycling Committee; paper industry; Save Stony Creek Coalition; Department of Environmental Resources; Hershey Recycling Group; paper mills


Dismantling the VA

page 7

keywords: veterans benefits; social welfare system; pensions; wartime veterans; medical care; Social Security; less than honorable discharges


Movies The Front Page

by Dick Sassaman

page 9

keywords: Review; play; newspapering; Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur; Billy Wilder; Jack Lemon; Walter Matthau; Chicago Examiner; Black policeman; Susan Sarandon; cop killer; Earl Williams; 1928; movie


Music Ringo and John

by Dick Sassaman

page 9

keywords: review; Ringo Starr; Goodnight Vienna; John Lennon; Walls and Bridges; No No Song; Only You; Dr. John; Elton John; Nilsson; Billy Preston;

Roger Miller; Alan Toussaint; New York City


'Anatomy in Blue' a bore

by Betty Tulane

page 12

keywords: Telly Savales; cop show; documentary; thriller; Paul Baker; Dick Olsen; plot; crimes; Shim Lehrman; 'public apathy'


Artwork

by Gene Suchma

page 1

keywords: muckraking; Boston Globe; subscribtion4

page 8

keywords: Cheap Trix; "non-speech"; cheap trick; cartoonist; "non-cartoon"; catholic school band; American legion; cops and robbers; FBI


Photos

by John Serbell

page 5







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