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Volume 4, Number 25: March 28, 1975 - April 4, 1975

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from March 28, 1975 - April 4, 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 25 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from March 28, 1975

Article Index


Consumers pay $421 million in fuel adjustment

by Christopher Sayer

page 2, page 12

keywords: Fuel Adjustment Clause; gas and electric companies; Public Utility Commission; UGI Corporation; Pennsylvania Power and Light; U.S. Senate; Edmund Muskie; Lee Metcalf; study; Conference on Consumer Problems; Herbert Denenberg; Community Affairs Secretary William Wilcox; Federal Energy Administration; illegal prices; U.S. Customs Service


County commissioners deny Black voting registartion request

by Lorraine Cross

page 2, page 12

keywords: Dauphin County Black Political Assembly; Harrisburg; Roy Hansard; 'voter apathy'; Commissioner Murdoch; courthouse; Commissioner Charles Hoy; Commissioner Earl Hoffman; special sittings


Students file grievances for right to wear hats

by Jim Zimmerman

page 2, page 12

keywords: William Penn campus; Harrisburg High School; school district; student dress code; State Board of Education; Student Rights and Responsibilities; style; fashion; Robert Mitchell; School Community Communications Project; Jack Taylor; parents; Jay Shotel; Tova Tive; Harrisburg School Board; race; local jurisdiction


How one senator bends

by Ralph Nader

page 3

keywords: In the Public Interest; Consumer Protection Bill; GM lobbyist; Sen. Bill Brock; Sen. Robert Griffing; oil companies; Sen. James B. Allen; oil depletion allowance; broadcasters; bureaucratic waste; agribusiness; waste


Capitol Insider

by Jim Wiggins

page 3

keywords: Governor's Council on Drug and Alcohol Abuse; marijuana; pot laws; Dr. Richard Horman; marijuana arrests; alcohol; decriminalization; emotional issue


Days of Awareness: April 2-3

page 3

keywords: speakers; seminars; films; Middle East; Southeast Asia; Harrisburg Area Community College; Committee for Citizens Awareness and Legislative Response; Coalition To Stop Funding the War; Nina Mohit; Patriot News; Dr. Paul Allenn; Elizabeth McAlister; Anthony Petrucci; Peace Studies; film; "Year of the Tiger"; Palestinian Liberation Organization; Ohev Bethel Shalom Temple; Hasan Rahman; Rabbi Jonathan Brown; Jim Zimmerman; Mike McAllister; Gary Reneker; Ronald Pagnucco; Jonah House Community


Wayward bus companies gang up on Mr. Smith

by Carol Chromicky

page 4

keywords: Leonard M. Smith; Harrisburg; bus service; minority community; P.U.C.; charter service; Trailways; Greyhound; Capital Area Transit; New Jerusalem Methodist Church; charitable organizations; FCC complaint; charter license; public transportation


Montage

page 4

keywords: North Carolina; New Hampshire; license plates; "Live Free or Die"; James Fowers; "First in Freedom"; blacks; National Guard; Steve Reed; free education; bereaved children; legal advice; civil or criminal action; legal order; on duty; Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz; foreign relations; meat; diet; National Pork Producers Council; Community Affairs Secretary William Wilcox; moratorium; nuclear power plants; waste disposal; Massachusetts Correctional Institution; "Stars in Stripes"; inmates; acting group; "The White House Transcripts"; Mark Frechette; bank robber; Terry Bernhard; Watergate; CIA; Howard Hughes; Russian sub; nuclear secrets


Abortion: One woman discusses her experience

by Hannah Leavitt

page 5

keywords: pseudonym; Washington, D.C. clinic; IUD; women's health care; Pat Greenawald; unwanted pregnancy; group counseling; birth control; health insurance; pain; anaesthesia; post abortion care


Local TV production shakes up the sex roles

by Janet Beals

page 6

keywords: Channel 27; television special; rape victim; National Organization for Women; Harrisburg; Lebanon Valley; Suzanne Baird; Ginny Sassaman; Diane Evans; sexism; Jane; Dick; Jim Adams; Ubi Nichols; Tony Petrucci; sex object; Margaret Deets; Louis Wack; Parker Bullock; Clarey Jones; "Children's Hour"; Carol Pollard; Kelly Simmons; role reversals


If you find chicken worth eating, here's how

page 6

keywords: "chicken factories"; local farmers; health food stores; braised chicken; chicken loaf; chicken and mushrooms; yogurt; fried chicken; peas; carrots; potatoes; asparagus; lima beans; leaks; onions


Fairchild layoffs don't halt overseas expansion

by Rick Jurgens/PNS

page 7

keywords: electronic components; Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation; American Indians; Shiprock, New Mexico; Indonesia; recession; semiconductors; Bureau of Indian Affairs; training program; U.S. government; housing; women; transistors; Hong Kong; Texas Instruments; Motorola; Signetics; militant strikes; American Indian Movement


Music Herbie Hancock talks about his art and his life

by David Kehler, Dick Sassaman, Jim Wiggins

page 8, page 13

keywords: interview; Buddhist practice; Nichiren Shoshu; Harrisburg; jazz; Eastern sounds; funk; soul; acoustic piano; Headhunters; Miles davis Quintet; Tony Williams; synthesizer; electric keyboard; entertainment; masterpiece; Bernie Maupin; Buster Williams; chant; gongyo; Lotus Sutra; Paul Jackson; Sextant; basic rhythms; Mike Clark


In concert Herbie Hancock and Third Stream

by Dick Sassaman

page 9

keywords: review; Headhunters quintet; Forum; Rick Kline; Jim Miller; Tom Strohman; Bruce Whitcomb; jazz; Dante's Downstairs; Fireweaver; Weathervane; Right Off; Watermelon Man; Miles Davis quintet; Bernie Maupin; Paul Jackson; Mike Clark; Bill Summers; Crossings; Thrust; Nicheren Shoshu; Maiden Voyage; Chameleon


The 20 greatest records in modern jazz

by D. K.

page 10, page 13

keywords: fusion music; bebop; Charlie Parker; swing; quarter notes; eighth notes; Kenny Dorham; Fats Navarro; The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever; Dizzy Gillespie; The Amazing Bud Powell; Charles Mingus; Max Roach; The Beginning and the End; Clifford Brown; "Donna Lee"; A Night At Birdland; Art Blakey Quintet; Lou Donaldson; Horace Silver; Doin' The Thing; funky jazz; Sonny Rollins; Three Giants; What's New; Miles Davis; John Coltrane; Sketches of Spain; Herbie Hancock; Tony Williams; Miles Smiles; Maiden Voyage; Freddie Hubbard; Georgr Coleman; Theolonius Monk; Wayne Shorter; Greatest Hits; harmony; tenor saxophone; Giant Steps; John Coltrane: His Greatest Years; Roland Kirk; Rip, Rig & Panic; Better Get It In Your Soul; Let My Children Hear Music; Duke Ellington; Louis Armstrong; Ornette Coleman; Free Jazz; Scott LaFaro; Cecil Taylor; classical music; Conquistador!


Books Books Books Jazz: King Oliver to Ornette

by D. K.

page 10

keywords: Martin Williams; "The Jazz Tradition"; jazz critic; Jelly Roll Morton; Ornette Coleman; Louis Armstrong; Bix Beiderbecke; Coleman Hawkins; Billie Holliday; Duke Ellington; Count Basie; Lester Young; Charlie Parker; Theolonius Monk; John Lewis; Sonny Rollins; Horace Silver; Miles Davis; John Coltrane; Ira Gitler; "Jazz Masters of the Forties"; bebop; Bud Powell; pianist


Theater A family portrait, sunrise at Easter

by Dick Sassaman

page 11

keywords: Albert John Moulfair; Preview; play; Middletown; Family Portrait; Lenore Coffee; William Joyce Cowen; Nazabeth; Capernaum; Jerusalem; Judith Anderson; Clayton Benton; Ken Slesser; Jesus; Mary; Pineford Players; Mary Magdelen; Julie Goodrich; David Marks; Jadaya; Toni Simmerts; Joseph; Judah; Simon; James; costumes; Charles A. Schulz; David Marks; Harry Saltzer; Ty Walker; Preview


Adventure A day in the life of a sex object

by Dick Sassaman

page 11

keywords: Preview; Jane and Dick, A Sexist Primer; Channel 27; Harrisburg; Lebanon Valley; National Organization for Women; Rachel McLaughlin; Parker Bullock; Tony Petrucci; Clarey Jones; WTPA-TV; feminist show; Larry Lowe; Community TV


Look what Hugh is up to

page 13

keywords: U.S. Senate; Minority leader; Hugh Scott; abortion; constitutional amendment; criminal law; murder; taxes; conception; IRS; Medicaid; citizen; immigration; child neglect; addicted women; drugs; fetus


Photos

by Armand Magnelli

page 1, page 8, page 9


by John Serbell

page 4, page 6


by Bob Levy

page 11


Artwork

by Gene Suchma

page 1

keywords: subscribe; The Boston Globe; HIP; muckraking spirit








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