Volume 4, Number 41: July 18, 1975 - July 25, 1975

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from July 18, 1975 - July 25, 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

With venal conceit, the senate denies consent

by Jim Wiggins

page 1, page 2, page 11

keywords: state senators; Philip Kalodner; James McHale; Public Utility Commission; Secretary of Agriculture; agribusiness; Robert Myers; William Lentz; utility bills; Minority Leader Richard Frame; Thomas Nolan; Joseph Ammerman; consumer advocate; rural poverty; World Food Conference; U S food policy; small farmers

A tradition continues

by Beth Coppinger

page 2, page 13

keywords: farmers' market; Farm Show; fresh produce; meats; Open Air Farmers Market Association; Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture; Market Square; su[ermarkets; processed foods

Volunteer couple assists stymied taxpayers

by Sara Greenwald

page 2

keywords: Beryl and Charles Graeff; Retired Senior Volunteer Program; county; township; school districts; occupation tax; Dauphin County per capita tax; H & R Block; exonoration; local taxes

Of tea and taxation

by Ralph Nader

page 3

keywords: In the Public Interest; "tax reform"; oil companies; banks; National Committee for Tax Justice; Tax Justice Act of 1975; Bob Loitz; Ohio Tax Equity for America; investment tax credit; depreciation; capital gains; tax-free bonds

Montage

page 3

keywords: Committee to Re-elect the President; Maurice Stans; Watergate; campaign contributions; American Medical Association; secret files; tax-exempt status; Food & Drug Administration; Flagyl; Aldactone; Aldactacide; G.D. Searle; pharmaceutical company; Ashland Oil; political contributions; CIA; Richard Nixon; Hubert Humphrey; Phillip Hirschkop; H.L. Hunt; wiretapping; Guy Goodwin; Florida; public officials; Senator Edward Gurney; bribery; conspiracy; income tax evasion; Robert L.F. Sikes; ethics law; Soviet missle launcher; minaret; photo reconaissance; Somalia; EXXON; Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Italian political parties; Italian Communist Party; American corporations; B.F. Goodrich; Colgate-Palmolive; Container Corporation of America; Columbian prisoners; cheap labor

Fight nuclear warmongers this summer in Washington

by Jonah House

page 4

keywords: Nagasaki bomb; Capitol steps; Fat Boy; nuclear energy; disarmament; Hiroshima

Community Forum Exiles on the war's end

by Amex-Canada

page 4, page 16

keywords: war resisters; Indochina; national unity; President Ford; Cambodia; Vietnam; clemency; less-than-honorable discharges; universal, unconditional amnesty; Thieu; Lon Nol; American empire; natural resources; Single Type Discharge; reconstruction

You can't beat prices down at the Farm Show

page 5

keywords: Farmer's Market; HIP consumer; fruits; vegetables; Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture; Weis Market; Pantry Pride; apples; apricots; bananas; beets; blueberries; broccoli; cabbage; carrots; cauliflower; celery; cherries; corn; cucumbers; green peppers; hot peppers; lemons; lettuce; onions; parsley; peaches; potatoes; snow peas; squash; stringbeans; tomatoes; turnips; watermelon; zucchini

Consumerscope: More grain for Russia, beware rising prices of sugar and potatoes

page 5

keywords: livestock growers; consumers; Secretary of Agriculture Butz; sugar-cane producing countries; retail potato prices

Those exotic fruits needn't throw you for a loop

page 6

keywords: pineapple; chicken; papaya; frappe; mango; coconut; coconut milk; coconut custard; plaintains; green plaintain chips

To make the shirt fit, alter bit by bit

by Marianne Kieda

page 7

keywords: chest size; measurements; alterations; chest; waist; hip; front waist length; back waist length; shoulders; sleeve; arm; wrist; tape measure; ruler; scissors; shirt pattern

Local Notes

by Skinny Luke

page 9

keywords: Yes; Harold Melvin & Blue-Notes; Joan Baez; Earth, Wind and Fire; Bruce Springsteen; Ten Years After; ZZ Top; War; Doobie Brothers; Rod Stewart; Beach Boys; Linda Ronstadt; Pa. Bluegrass Festival; Phila. Folk Festival

The American People: 200 years

by Sharon Ament

page 12

keywords: Toni Truesdale; drawings; prints; watercolors; people; country; immigrants; slaves; Tangerine Gallery

A weatherwoman recalls the violent years

by Jerry Jones

page 13

keywords: With the Weathermen: The Personal Journal of a Revolutionary Woman; Susan Stern; guerilla; SDS; Seattle 7; terrorist; feminist; Bernadine Dohrn; individuality; sexual exploitation; Stalinism; Maoist doctrine; prison conditions; confessional

Alice returns

by Dick Sassaman

page 1, page 16

keywords: Review; Dear Abby; Alice Cooper; Welcome To My Nightmare; Joe Gannon; Farm Show; Department of Youth; Bob Ezrin; Lou Reed; Stephen; Billion Dollar Babies; I'm Eighteen; Cold Ethyl; black widow spiders; Steve Hunter; Dick Wagner; Uchi Sugiyama; David Winters; East Coast Concerts; Linda Ronstadt; Leo Kottke; Robin Blythe

Sizwe Banzi Is Dead

by Dick Sassaman

page 15

keywords: Theater Review; The Island; Kreeger Theater; Robben Island; prisoners; 'Antigone'; South Africa; Athol Fugard; The Serpent Players; "Bantu homelands"; dompas; John Kani; Winston Ntshona; apartheid; Tony Award; Robert Zwelinsema; Styles; Ian smith; Billy Graham; Kissinger; Henry Ford; racial laws; racial inequalities

Photos

by Fred Prouser

page 1, page 2, page 12, page 15

Artwork

by Suzette Olsen

page 7

keywords: shirt; patterns

by Toni Truesdale

page 12

by Gene Suchma

page 8

keywords: Cosmodrome; docking; Kennedy Space Center; Knock

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