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Volume 4, Number 22: March 7, 1975 - March 14, 1975

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from March 7, 1975 - March 14, 1975, had 16 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 22 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from March 7, 1975

Article Index


Housing Director bars press, then walks out

by Jim Zimmerman

page 2, page 11

keywords: William Phillips; Harrisburg Housing Authority; tenants meeting; Hall Manor; Bob Colman; Concerned Citizens of Hall Manor; Central Pennsylvania Legal Services; maintenance; security; James Straub; Director of Public Safety; Harrisburg Police Department; juveniles; vandalism; recreation; elderly; grievance form


Steelton police arrest leftist newspaper peddler

page 2, page 10

keywords: Bruce Director; U.S. Labor Party; New Solidarity; communist; political organization; Kenneth Tindall; Chief of Police; Thomas Schmidt; ACLU; federal court; steelworkers; Harrisburg; Penbrook; Mechanicsburg


62 people arrested at White House

by Jim Wiggins

page 2, page 11

keywords: Gerald Ford; amnesty; war; earned re-entry program; Daniel Berrigan; civil disobeidance; Dick Gregory


FBI prepares to open files

by Ralph Nader

page 3, page 6

keywords: In the Public Interest; Freedom of Information Act; law enforcement; Watergate; confidential informers; disclosure


About this issue

page 1, page 3

keywords: International Women's Day; equal pay; childcare; vote; 1908; Paris Peace Agreement; rape; poetry; Weather Underground; Toni Truesdale; Angela Davis; Mother Jones; Susan B. Anthony; Woman Chief; Lola De Tio; World War I; Abigail Adams; sisterhood


Montage

page 3

keywords: student rights; public schools; Supreme Court; Columbus, Ohio; black history celebration; UPI poll; crimes against property; Martin luther King; James Earl Ray; assassination; trial; Alameda County; prostitution; male customers; discrimination; injunction; Walt Disney; "Mickey Mouse March"; porno theater; film; "The Life and Times of a Happy Hooker"; copyright; wealth; corporate stock; Wharton School; food stamps; Agriculture Department; Senate Select Committee; application form; hollownosed bullets; Massachusetts State Police; ban; Representative Joseph Rhodes


No trash shortage, but cheap coffins catch on

by Christopher Sayer

page 4, page 10

keywords: recession; government employment; garbage; Elmo Hodge; Division of Sanitation; New York; Chicago; Gary McElwain; Goodwill Industries; handicapped workers; Salvation Army; fund raising; American Cancer Society; March of Dimes; funeral costs; Abe's Tavern; St. Moritz; reading; Dauphin County Library System; drinking


Ruins of ravaged repasts

page 4

keywords: students; University of Arizona; Tucson; garbage; Department of Anthropology; William Rathje; Garbage Project; waste


A shopper's guide to pet food

page 5

keywords: HIP consumer; Pathmark; Giant; Pantry Pride; Weis; meat stew; liver; beef; Purina Dog Chow; Dry Dog Food; Milk Bone; tuna; Tender Vittles; dry cat food; Purina Cat Chow; fish


Soybeans don't have to taste vile

page 5

keywords: dried soybeans; soybean dip; soyburgers; soy cheeseburgers; soy chili; soybean casserole; coffeecake; roasted soybeans; milk


Rape: one woman charges police insensitivity

by Lorraine Cross

page 6

keywords: Marie Hallman; attack; robbery; Muench St.; fingerprints; handgun; Chief of Police; Juvenile Officer; George Warner


Rape crisis center in the works

page 6

keywords: Harrisburg Area Rape Crisis Center; Black Women's Caucus; hospitals; State Police; Harrisburg Police; community service; hotline; moral support; medical care; VD tests; self defense


Philadelphia Archdiocese bans Girl Scouts

page 6

keywords: church buildings; meetings; programs; sex education; Camp Fire Girls; contraception; abortion; rape; female anatomy


How to talk dirty and infuriate women

by Carol Chromicky

page 7

keywords: "cat calls"; verbal abuse; sexism; shut down; walk; "Fuck off"; harassment; avoidance; rape


Poetry Spider Poem

page 7

keywords: Weather Underground; lands; hands; bombs; children; safe; International Women's Day; "Sing a Battle Song"


Poetry For Our Men

page 7

keywords: Weather Underground; long hair; peace; warriors; human spirit; "Sing a Battle Song"; International Women's Day


Women's Day will focus on Joann Little case

by Linda Lotz

page 8

keywords: International Women's Day; YWCA; Lou Pauls; defense committee; public address; North Carolina; first degree murder; rape; petition; Southern Poverty Law Center; Inez Garcia; prison; California


The pill and strokes

by LNS

page 8

keywords: birth control pill; stroke; doctors


Poetry Straight Talk

page 8

keywords: "Sing a Battle Song"; International Women's Day; rude; foul language; woman; Weather Underground


Poetry Thoughts on Blood Debts

page 8

keywords: women; life; birth; nourish; protect; Weather Underground; International Women's Day


Feuilleton

by Dick Sassaman

page 9

keywords: Matthew Quay; Dillsburg; U.S. Senate; Paul Beers; state legislature; marble statue; capitol rotunda; John D. Rockefeller, Sr.; Medal of Honor; Battle of Fredericksburg; William Donovan; OSS; Second World War; spy; Corey Ford; explosive; Stanley Lovell; bats; cats; wine cask; Berlin; France


New Women's Commissioner to concentrate on ERA

by Lorraine Cross

page 9

keywords: Marie Keeney; Pennsylvania Commission for Women; Governor Shapp; equal rights amendment; sex discrimination; rape victims; rape crisis centers; Insurance Department; career opportunities; Harrisburg YWCA; Human Relations Commission


Program works to better prisons

page 9

keywords: Pennsylvania Program for Women and Girl Offenders; county jails; state prisons; community service centers; information; health care; recreation; vocational training; rehabilitation programs; legal materials; data analysis; Standards and Goals Project


New school to open

page 10

keywords: James School of Dual Knowledge; love; spiritual development; Church of the Divine Birth; academic requirements


The Repertory Theatre Ensemble No Exit Waiting for Godot

by Dick Sassaman

page 12

keywords: Little Theater; Hershey Community Center; waiting; eternity; Russ Brown; Estragon; Michael Goldstein; Vladimir; Beckett; "Vaudeville"; Vaughn Patterson; Gogo; Didi; Pozzo; Randy Disend; Lucky; Curt Hostetter; Marx Brothers; Sartre; Hell; valet; Garcin; Inez; Dorothy Hayden; Estelle; Joan Huber; shadows; Paris; review


Musica Antiqua Harrisburgiensis

by Dick Sassaman

page 12

keywords: William Penn Museum; Karen Ricci; Peggy Giddings; Paul Manski; Alice Bistline; John Abramczyk; recorder group; Melody Ember; watercolor prize; Central Pennsylvania Scholastic Art Awards


Jethro Tull

by Dick Sassaman

page 13, page 12

keywords: review; Hershey Arena; Ian Anderson; flute; string quartet; Jeffrey Hammond; John Evans; Thick As a Brick; Aqualung; War Child; Bungle In the Jungle; Martin Barre; Barriemore Barlow; Living In the Past; stage frills


Coach Maguffee assesses Cougar cage season

by Gordon Blaine

page 13

keywords: basketball; Harrisburg High; Bill Maguffee; Hersheypark Arena; playoff; Steelton; John Ellis; Bob Fulwiley; Jayvees; team ball; Matt Crossen; Joe Robinson; Jimmy Harrison; Dave Lewis; Jack McClinton; Central Penn


Artwork

by Gene Suchma

page 1

keywords: The Bride of Frankie Stein; Ego; Jayne Mansfield; consciousness raising; Intl Women's Day


by Toni Truesdale

page 1

keywords: Angela Davis; Mother Jones; Susan B. Anthony; Woman Chief; Lola DeTio


page 3

keywords: Wizard of Id; defense; rebellion


by Peg Averil

page 6

keywords: Boston Women's Health Collective; Our Bodies, Ourselves; rape


Photos

by John Serbell

page 2, page 7


by James Flanagan

page 12


by Ann Dougherty

page 13








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