Volume 4, Number 30: May 2, 1975 - May 9, 1975

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from May 2, 1975 - May 9, 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.

Article Index

City Towers: A prelude to Harristown

by Jim Wiggins

page 1, page 2, page 11

keywords: Third and Chestnut Sts.; architecture; Melvin Pugatch; developer; Mayor Harold Swenson; luxury apartments; Insurance Commissioner William Sheppard; William Phillips; Harrisburg Housing Authority; cost overrun; financing; Hattie Harris Market; convienence store; commercial spaces; chain store; Linda Lotz; Harrisburg Redevelopment Forum; green spaces; daycare; recreation; small urban merchant

State threatens to close maverick city bookseller

by Jim Zimmerman

page 2, page 15

keywords: Duane Johnson; 3rd and Market Streets; Pennsylvania Fire and Panic Act; textbooks; Industrial Board; retail book sales; Charles Barto; scrap dealers; Nebraska Book Company; fire extinguishers; smoke detectors

City Council is one big happy family, but who do they represent?

by Christopher Sayer

page 2, page 12

keywords: Italian Lake Park; Bellevue Park; Allison Hill; working class neighborhood; Charter Commission; atlarge basis; Leroy Robinson, Jr.; Richard Stabinski; Maryanne Faust; Herbert Goldstein; Robert Hawley; Uptown section; independent candidates; neighborhood leaders; professionals; self-employed persons; single-member districts; democracy

Don't let them ruin Stony Creek

by Barbara Sassaman

page 3

keywords: PP&L; Met-Ed; pumped storage plant; rate hike; Readersforum; reservoir; dam; hydroelectric generator; pollutants; wilderness area; brook trout; peak load pricing; Horseshoe Trail; Storm King Mountain; New York; Federal Power Commission; Appalachian; Stony Creek Valley Coalition; College of the Atlantic; environmental school

America's toughest kid

by Ralph Nader

page 3

keywords: Franklin L. Gage; petition drive; nuclear power; solar energy; Task Force Against Nuclear Pollution; Consolidated Edison; radiation release; sabotage; radioactive waste disposal; Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy; Egan O'Connor; nuclear moratorium; environmentalists; Washington; Nuclear Reappraisal Act; Hamilton Fish; Edward Patterson

Letters To the Editor

page 4

keywords: freedom; big business; elected representatives; Pennsylvania Turnpike; Gulf Oil Corporation; "slave labor"; unemployment; unions; boycotting; investigative reporting; juveniles; adult prisons; Cumberland County Prison; White Hill; suicide; Richard Leiby; The Fourth Estate; PP&L; rate increase; National Interim Committee; formal complaint; Public Utility Commission

Montage

page 4

keywords: Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company; national security wiretaps; Washington, D.C.; civil suit; FBI; National Security Council; Morton Halperin; J. Edgar Hoover; President Nixon; invasion of privacy; wiretapping statutes; First Delaware Valley Citizens TV; anti-trust suit; U.S. District Court; CBS; WHP; Channel 10; Philadelphia; broadcasting tower; Cohen and Dipple; Chicago Mayor Richard Daley; Mary Lou Briatta; mob gambling operations; crime syndicate; U.S. Senate Rackets Committee; U.S. Air Force; Environmental Protection Agency; defoliant herbicide orange; Vietnam; Pacific Ocean; Honolulu; Pacific Islands Trust Territory; Life of the Land; Tony Hodges; Micronesia; homosexuals; discrimination; Gov. Milton Shapp; Connecticut; employment; housing; Rep. Raymond Liddy; Rep. Abijah Fox

Local puppeteer plans a flowering of the arts

by Sara Greenwald

page 5

keywords: Robert Gardner; HACC; Eugene Ionesco; Riverside Elementary School; Harrisburg Community Theater; acting; dance; "The Bald Soprano"; fishline; plastic eggs; Barbara Beatty; "The Devil and His Three Golden Hairs"; marionette; worship services; Dauphin County Women's Prison; "Rapunzel"; "The End of Make Believe"; "The Lunatic"; college students

Legislator warns Communist danger if gay people get state jobs

page 5

keywords: discrimination; homosexuals; Rep. William Wilt; state police; guards; state mental hospitals; Sen. Clarence Bell; Gov. Shapp; executive order; equal rights; hiring practices

Penn Harris to raise fare

page 5

keywords: Public Utilities Commission; Penn Harris Taxi Service; operating costs; drivers; fare increase

Public Defender promises better, faster service

by Jim Zimmerman

page 6

keywords: Dauphin County Public Defender's Office; Joshua Lock; District Justices; criminal cases; preliminary arraignment; Dauphin County Prison; preliminary hearing; legal defense; bail; Philadelphia

Ma Bell goes after phone phreaks

by LNS

page 6

keywords: Michigan Bell Telephone Company; Fifth Estate; alternative newspaper; Detroit; fraud charges; long distance phone calls; credit card codes; "black box"; First Amendment; freedom of the press; rate increase; Len Mogil

A Conservative opts for freedom in anarchy

by Christopher Sayer

page 6

keywords: Book Review; Dear America; Karl Hess; Republican platform; speechwriter; Barry Goldwater; "Free Huey"; tax resister; Newsweek; National Review; capitalist system; state socialism; selfreliant neighborhoods; Fred Harris; Mark Hatfield; totalitarianism; Soviet Union; Lyndon Johnson; Vietnam; draft; hydraponic gardens; community institutions; state governments

Late flashes from the garden

page 7

keywords: vegetables; successive planting; companion planting; tomatoes after radishes; coldtolerant crops; "The Basic Book of Organic Gardening"; seedlings; seed planting chart; peas; radishes; spinach; chard; onions; carrots; asparagus; broccoli; lettuce; parsley; tomatoes; celery; beans; peppers; squash; cucumbers; corn; brussel sprouts; kale

Simply-made quickbreads are nutritious snacks

page 8

keywords: yeast; corn bread; banana bread; pumpkin bread; orangenut bread; honey-date loaf; blueberry muffins; apple carrot muffins

Bread prices will fall soon, beef in Sept.

page 8

keywords: wheat crop; wholesale prices; sugar; beef prices; grain crop; consumers; Council on Wage and Price; cereal prices; Kellogg: General Foods; Quaker Oats; General Mills; Ralston Purina; Nabisco

Harrisburg Street Art

by James L. Flanigan

page 1, page 9

keywords: street garaffiti; Harrisburg street artists; Blacks in America; folk heroes; cartoon characters; peace; solidarity; love; visions; city environment

Conspiracy in America confab set

by Campaign for Democratic Freedoms

page 11

keywords: Conspiracy In America: From Dallas To Watergate"; conference; Los Angeles; assassinations; government intelligence; community/labor repression; Mark Lane; "Rush To Judgment"; Louis Tackwood; Mae Brussel; Charles Garry; David DuBois; workshops; FBI; Freedom of Information Act

Two concerts and a short interview

Janis Ian Between the Lines

by Dick Sassaman

page 13

keywords: Stars; The Main Point; West Chester State College; Claire Bey; Stu Woods; Barry Lazarowitz; Leonard Bernstein; New York City; horns; Joan Baez; When the Party's Over; folk clubs; Led Zeppelin; David Bromberg; Tom Rush

Shampoo

by Betty Tulane

page 13

keywords: movie review; farce; Warren Beatty; hairdresser; Goldie Hawn; Lee Grant; Jack Warden; Julie Christie; social commentary; '60s; Robert Towne; Lazlo Kovacs; California film; Hal Ashby; election eve

Local Concerts

page 15

keywords: Chick Corea; Aerosmith; Eagle; Dan Fogelberg; Capitol Campus Music Festival

Photos

by James Flanigan/Visions

page 1, page 9

by John Serbell

page 5

Artwork

by Gene Suchma

page 10

keywords: The Menace of Venice; Venice-town; St. Marks; historic building; renaissance; burg

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