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Volume 4, Number 20: February 21, 1975 - February 28, 1975

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from February 21, 1975 - February 28, 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 21 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from February 21, 1975

Article Index


Anatomy of a losing season at Harrisburg High

by Jim Zimmerman

page 1, page 2, page 7

keywords: football team; coaching; racism; Head Coach Joseph Makosky; Coach George Kolarac; niggers; Anthony Crummel; Teddy Jefferson; Athletic Committee; Rev. Gerald Stutzman; petition; education; Harrisburg Cougar Booster Club; scholarships; Wes Plummer


Governor puts plans on hold for state 'super jail'

by Jim Wiggins

page 2, page 8

keywords: Department of Corrections; violent inmates; Waymart; Coalition To End Prison Violence; Lt. Gov. Kline; Jon Ross; Clients of the Judicial System; sensitivity training; prison guard; Margery Velimesis


Free clinic back in business after renovation

by Lorraine Cross

page 2, page 8

keywords: medical services; Fred Rubin; volunteers; electrician; carpet layer; privacy; Emancipated Minor Law; Department of Health; Venereal Disease Control Bureau; Cancer Control Bureau; doctors; microscope


Montage

page 3

keywords: Civil Rights Act; Macon Telegraph publishing Company; men's hair; federal appeals court; Consumer Product Safety Commission; pistol; ammunition; Committee for Handgun Control; federal court order; deadline; garden plots; Gov. Shapp; Holiday Inn; leotards; female bartenders; Minnesota; Department of Human Rights; costumes; Pittsburgh; Enviro-SOS; air; particulates; Environmental Protection Agency; legal aid; Federal Communications Commission; radio broadcasters; hiring discrimination; Federal Communications Bar Association; United Church of Christ; welfare; tax loopholes; subsidies; Fred Harris; tax cut; tax increase


L. A. reduces the juice

by Ralph Nader

page 3

keywords: In the Public Interest; Marriott Motel; energy consumption; Federal Energy Administration; Los Angeles; Department of Water and Power; emergency program; lighting; air conditioning; heating; federal government; military energy consumption; mass transit; fuel efficient; garbage; solid waste; pollution; nuclear plants


Drummer editors quit, again

page 3

keywords: Philadelphia Drummer; editor; publisher; "alternative" newspaper; The Daily Planet; Jon Stern; Bob Ingram; Mike Masch


Poetry

by Susan Wohlbruck

page 3

keywords: 10.5 and Rising; Buffalo; shoplifting; book; Karl Marx


We don't want your money, just your time

by Gretchen Morgan

page 4

keywords: readers; HIP; employees; Jim Zimmerman; distribution; Jim Wiggins; writing; story ideas; Hannah Leavitt; billing; Carol Chromicky; Merrie Mangold; layout; Janet Beals; subscription; Dick Sassaman; mailing; Gretchen Morgan; John Serbell; photographs; Kathy McCarthy; advertisers; ad building


Attica state witness cites brutal coercion

page 4

keywords: Buffalo; Charles "Flip" Crowley; police prison guards; prosecution witness; false testimony; torture; Attica Brothers; Vernon LaFranque; prison uprising; September 1971


Retired senior volunteer program offers tax assistance for elderly

page 4

keywords: Property Tax Assistance Bureau; Property Tax and Rent Rebates; Lewis L. Crippen; volunteers; Cumberland, Dauphin and Perry Counties


Oh, what a friend we have in Mr. Peanut

page 5

keywords: pea; protein; unsaturated oil; salt; snacks; roasted peanuts; peanut butter; ribflavin; niacin; peanut cake; peanut butter cookies; peanut coconut snacks; spaghetti; casserole


Serenity House: Beginning alternatives for youth crime

by Steve Murray

page 5, apge 7

keywords: Rep. Steve Reed; detention home; group home; juvenile delinquents; youth counseling program; Goodwill; National Institute on Drug Abuse; George Culmer; school; drug dependency; Debby Kennedy


A guide to the power of global corporations

by Jim Wiggins

page 6

keywords: Book Review: Global Reach, the Power of the Multi-National Corporations; Richard J. Barnet; Ronald E. Muller; oil crisis; Russia wheat deal; inflation; oligarchic control; wars; starvation; exploitation; globalization; Latin America; labor movement; Far East; cheap labor; pollution; disclosure


A new U. S. export: cancer

by PNS/LNS

page 6

keywords: vinyl chloride; cancer-causing gas; plastics; third world nations; liver cancer; Dow Chemical Corporation; BF Goodrich Co.; New Zealand; South Korea; Chile; Indonesia; pollution control; safety standards; PVC; workers; wildcat protest


Feuilleton

by Dick Sassaman

page 7

keywords: movie; The Front Page; Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur; Hildy Johnson; Jack Lemmon; Walter Burns; Walter Matthau; watch; son of a bitch; Pat O'Brien; obscenity; earthquake; Union Deposit Cinemas; Nicaragua; Los Angeles; Irvin S. Cobb; Many Laughs for Many Days; newspapers; headlines; fatality; Sandy Kraemer; American Bar Association Journal; Will Rogers; larceny


An act to catch at the Hofbrau

page 8

keywords: Village Hofbrau; Vinegar Ferry; acoustic blues; bluegrass; folk; Hank Imhoff; Teddy Dickerson; Steve Karolchick; guitar; flute; sax; conga; mandolin; harp


The Phantom of the Paradise

by Dick Sassaman

page 9

keywords: movie; Brian De Palma; Pauline Kael; New Yorker; Death Records; Swan; Paul Williams; Winslow Leach; William Finley; record factory; rock theater; Jessica Harper; Beef; Gerrit Graham; The Beach Bums; The Joicy Fruits; Upholstery; Paul Williams; The Hell Of It


Tom Paxton

by Dick Sassaman

page 9

keywords: folksinger; Susquehanna University; New Songs For Old Friends; daughter; Miss Alabama; Watergate; Attica; The Last Thing On My Mind; Talking Vietnam Blues; The Hostage


The General at HACC

by Dick Sassaman

page 9

keywords: movie; Buster Keaton; The General; silent movie; narrator; puns; jokes; acrobat; comedian; lip-synch


Artwork

by Gene Suchma

page 1

keywords: John Dean; Johnny Carson; Watergate; White House; 18 minute gap; Chuck Colson; Jeb Magruder; "Deep Throat"; Sammy Davis Jr.


Photos

by Armand Magnelli

page 9


Queen; Farm Show Arena

page 11








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