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Volume 4, Number 39: July 4, 1975 - July 11, 1975

Updated: Oct 24, 2025

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from July 4, 1975 - July 11, 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 39 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from July 4, 1975

Article Index


Sales taxes take more from those who have less

page 2, page 11

keywords: Pennsylvania; regressive tax system; midle class; poor people; 6% sales tax; consumer items; cigarette tax; liquor tax; gas tax; graduated income tax; Herbert Fineman; Steve Reed; Governor Shapp


Late Flashes From the Picket Line Violence erupts, Wanda busted!! Lt. Gov. gets woozy at briefing A paycheck for McEntee

by Jim Wiggins

page 1, page 2, page 13

keywords: strike; public employees; Jerry McEntee; AFCSME; Wanda Weaver; PennDOT; Pennsylvania Social Services Union; private sector; Gov. Shapp; "binding arbitration"; Lt. Gov. Ernest Kline; intensive care unit; state park; court injunctions; Judge James Bowman; state hospital system


Grow your own, let it rot

by Ralph Nader

page 3

keywords: In the Public Interest; canning jar; gardening; grocery stores; home canning supplies; Ball Corp.; Kerr Glass Mfg. Corp.; lids; Office of Consumer Affairs; Bernardin Bottle Cap Co.; Gerald Ford; Federal Trade Commission; antitrust division


Montage

page 3

keywords: Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; India; extortion; bribery; state of emergency; Ernest Patton; State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill; juveniles; Attorney General Robert Kane; Health Care Facilities Association of Pennsylvania; nursinghome; Medicaid patients; President's Advisory Committee on Refugees; Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees; sponsors; jobs; Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy; Secretary of State; Assistant to the President for National Security; Henry Kissinger; poorhouse; prisons; Eugene Debs; exploitation; world peace; representatives; Congress; House; Soviet Union; Arab nations; China; Israel


Drug Council seeks rockfest for City Island July 5

by Sara Greenwald

page 4

keywords: Dauphin County Executive Commission on Drugs and Alcohol; "Get It Together"; Violet Plantz; Fourth Estate; Hotel Bedbug; Showmasters; Bruce Desford; Youth Urban Services; Serenity House; Volunteers in Probation; Gaudenzia; police


Across the Bar

by Christopher Sayer

page 4

keywords: Cambridge Survey Research; 1974 elections; voters; Republican Louis Wyman; Democrat Joseph Durkin; New Hampshite; economy; energy; New Jersey; Gov. Brendan Byrne; corruption; Philadelphia; Special Prosecutor Walter Phillips; Frank Mazzei; party system; Gov. George Wallace


Beer for the beerless; where and how much

page 5

keywords: HIP consumer; cans; returnable bottles; Moeslein; Thrifty Beverage; Marlin Evans; Beverage Mart; Budweiser; Schmidts; Millers; Michelob; Coors; Schaefer; Rheingold; Piels; Strohs; Genesee Beer; Genesee Ale; Schlitz; Rolling Rock; Iron City; Stegmaier; Reading; Heinekin; Lowenbrau


Food for patriotic fervor: July 4 picnic dishes

page 6

keywords: raw vegetable appetizers; barbeque sauce; corn on the cob; deviled eggs; spinach salad; oatmeal bread; fruit punch; berry pie; carrots; celery; broccoli; cauliflower; avocado


A union of workers and decades of struggle

by Dennis Boyer

page 6

keywords: Them and Us: Struggles of a Rank-and-FIle Union; James L. Matles; James Higgins; Book Review; United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers; labor history; bureaucratic leadership; Senator McCarthy; AFL-CIO;progressive causes; antiwar movement; "class struggle"


How to tailor-make a basic dress pattern

by Marianne Kieda

page 8, page 12

keywords: Make Your Own Dress; shirt; dress; gown; sleeveless A-line blouse; side seams; alterations; ease; measurement list; pattern pieces; shoulder; front waist length; bust; shoulder to bust; waist; waist-to-hip measurement


Local Notes

by Skinny Luke

page 9

keywords: Linda Ronstadt; Alice Cooper; Harold Melvin & Blue-Notes; Beach Boys; Penna. Bluegrass Fest.; Phila. Folk Fest.; Rod Stewart; Earth, Wind and Fire; Weather Report; Isley Brothers; Yes; Joan Baez; Ten Years After


HIP Surveillance Sweepstakes

page 12

keywords: FBI; CIA; Freedom of Information Act; file


Record Albums Jazz Freddie Hubbard

by Dick Sassaman

page 15

keywords: Liquid Love; Just Jazz; Harry Franklin; Carl Burnett; Carl Randall Jr.; Buck Clark; George Cables; Kuntu; Donald Byrd; First Light; Red Clay; Blue Note; Silver 'N Brass; Alphonse Mouson; Mind Transplant; Tommy Bolin; Bobby Huycherson; Linger Lane; Ernie Watts; Chuck Rainey; Jean-Luc Ponty; On the Wings of Music; Billy Cobham; Shabazz; Eddie Harris; I Need Some Money; Chuck Mangione; Chase the Clouds Away; Esther Satterfield; Yusef Lateef; 10 Years Hence; Kenneth Barron; Bob Cunningham; Albert Heath; Michael Urbaniak; Fusion III; Anthony Jackson; Steve Gadd; Gerald Brown; Funk Factory; Urszula Dudziak; Modern Jazz Quarter; In Memoriam; The Last Concert; John Lewis; Milt Jackson; Percy Heath; Connie Kay; Rahsaan Roland Kirk; The Case of the 3 Sided Dream In Audio Color; The Vibration Society; Stan Getz; Captain Marvel; Albert Dailey; Chick Corea; Stanley Clarke; Airto; Tony Williams


Third Stream at Indiantown Gap

by Dick Sassaman

page 16

keywords: jazz group; Vietnamese refugees; Indiantown Gap Military Reservation; flatbed truck; Herb Alpert; Tijuana Brass; Tom Strohman; Bruce Whitcomb; Jim Miller; Rick Kline; Memphis Underground


Jazz for July

page 16

keywords: Third Stream; Latent Image; Stanley Turrentine; McCoy Tyner; Rahsaan Roland Kirk; Lionel Hampton; Earl Hines; Sonny Rollins; Gloria Lynne; Dizzy Gillespie; Richie Cole; Benny Goodman; Roy Ayers; Stan Kenton; Woody Herman; Maynard Ferguson; Art Blakey; Donald Byrd; Sarah Vaughan; Herbie Mann; Chick Corea; Count Basie; Ray Bryant; Ella Fitzgerald; Oscar Peterson; Grover Washington; The Dells; The Main Ingridient; Cecil Taylor; Elvin Jones; Cannonball Adderley; B.B. King; Cecil Taylor; Cleo Laine; John Dankworth; Blood Sweat and Tears; Weather Report; Earth, Wind and Fire; Preservation Hall Jazz Band; Les McCann; Al Haig Trio; Hod O'Brien Trio; Sonny Greer; Russell Procope; Brooks Kerr; Chet Baker; Rashied Ali Quartet; Roy Eldridge; Lee Konitz Trio; Joe Lee Wilson; Thad Jones; Mel Lewis; Ahmad Jamal Quintet


Photos

by Fred Prouser

page 1, page 2


by Dick Sassaman

page 16


Artwork

by Gene Suchma

page 7

keywords: Catfish; Cleveland, Ohio; urologist; malpractice suits; Catfish Hunter


by Suzette Olsen

page 8








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