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Volume 4, Number 43: August 1, 1975 - August 8, 1975

Updated: Nov 11

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from August 1, 1975 - August 8, 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 43 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from August 1, 1975

Article Index


Fight with justice system brings partial victory

by Jim Zimmerman

page 2, page 14

keywords: Donald Burney; armed robbery; Judge William W. Lipsett; Radio Shack; Uptown Shopping Center; lie detector test; Harrisburg Police Department; detective Carl Robinson; Dauphin County District Attorney; Arthur Dils; Michael Sedor; dismissal


Why Honest Abe didn't sleep here

by P. J. Revere

page 1, page 2, page 14

keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Pennsylvania Railroad; Allan Pinkerton; Gov. Andrew G. Curtin; murder; telegraph line; Ward Hill Lamon; Pennsylvania Daily Telegraph


City Island users want to be left alone

page 2, page 14

keywords: teenagers; YMCA Youth Urban Services; recreational area; concerts; sports activities; night lighting; police protection; police harassment; curfew; drug use; drinking; drag racing; littering; Public Safety Director Al Straub; supervised activities; Department of Parks and Recreation; Youth Information Center; John Thomas


Deconstructive de-control

by Ralph Nader

page 3

keywords: oil companies; Gerald Ford; Federal Energy Administration; Department of the Interior; domestic oil production; Alaskan oil; cost increases; conservation; Joint Economic Commission; Federal Energy Administration; Alan Greenspan; Senator Warren Magnuson


Montage

page 3

keywords: Sen. Hugh Scott; Criminal Justice Act of 1975; Senate Judiciary Committee; death penalty; riot; entrapment; San Quentin Six; George Jackson; murder; Marin County; Texas; whooping crane refuge; Parks and Wildlife; Representative Joe Wyatt; CIA; William Colby; Chile; Alvador Allende; Richard Helms; Department of Justice; Richard Nixon; Army; LSD; hallucinagens; suicide; William Kuntzler; Carlos Feliciano; bombings; Puerto Rican Nationalist; New York; State Supreme Court


Letters

page 3

keywords: Open Air Farmers' Market; Beth Coppinger; Robert J. Stine; Department of Agriculture; Suchma; cartoons; mankind; nature


Kraft workers learn all about union-busting

by Dennis Boyer

page 4

keywords: Kraft Food; strike; Fogelsville, Pa; United Auto Workers; working conditions; computer firms; safety; compulsive overtime; Mack Truck; Harry Boyer; AFL-CIO; boycott; police; Kraft products


Strengthen your body by healing your spirit

page 4

keywords: Jeshua ben Josef School for Religion; Institute for Neuropsychic Studies; Neuropsychic Praxist Office; spiritual healing


Defend the right to bear spoons

page 4

keywords: FBI; Clarence Kelly; juveniles; "Saturday Night Specials"


Soup of the evening, beautiful soup

page 5

keywords: light soups; warm weather; vegetables; yogurt soup; borscht with cucumber; gazpacho; cream of curry soup; fruit soup; pea soup; avocado soup


Moving, poison, booze, TV, and an insurance tip

page 6

keywords: August; Interstate Commerce Commission; Bekins; United; American Red Ball; Mayflower; Atlas; North American; Allied; Republic; wholesale lettuce; HUD; crime insurance; Insurance Company of North America; Consumer Reports; TV stations; Environmental protection Agency; pesticides; Governor Shapp; State Store system; liquor


Action against phoney contests begins

page 6

keywords: vacation contest; Resort Hotel Association; Bureau of Consumer Protection; Lackawanna County; lawsuit; motel room; Scranton


Did our city share the grandeur that was Rome?

by Richard Hower

page 7, page 8

keywords: Dauphin County; Roman civilization; Dr. Salvador de Pirahna; Carbon 14 machines; Dauphin Deposit building; Dr. Steven Sominecks; archaeologists; bridge; aquaduct; ampitheater; Roman tomb; Borkum Riff; 'Marlboro Man'; cigarette rolling machine; Wildwood, New Jersey; pheasant; Appalachians; Bicentennial celebration; Roman costumes; Paul Revere


Local Notes

by Skinny Luke

page 9

keywords: ZZ Top; Kokomo; Graham Central Station; Rufus; Linda Ronstadt; Leo Kottke; Roberta Flack; War; Doobie Brothers; Rod Stewart; Ten Years After; Beach Boys; Melanie; New Riders of the Purple Sage;


Oil profits go to greater gain, not exploration

by Steve Schneider/PNS

page 13, page 14

keywords: energy crisis; oil companies; diversification; Standard Oil of California; Gulf; C.N.A. Financial; Rockwell International; real estate; petrochemicals; Mobil; Montgomery Ward; Standard Oil of Indiana; liquid carbon Dioxide; Union Oil; Ford administration; National Academy of Science; offshore; oil imports; nuclear power plants; solar; geothermal; energy independence; Energy Research and Development Agency


Jaws

by Dick Sassaman

page 15, page 16

keywords: movie; Union Deposit; UA Twin Cinemas; novel; Peter Benchley; The Jaws Log; Carl Gottlieb; Great White Shark; Martha's Vineyard; Martin Brody; Matt Hooper; Quint; Amity; Orca; Steven Spielberg; Richard Zanuck; David Brown; Gene Hackman; Roy Scheider; Richard Dreyfuss; Robert Shaw; Murray Hamilton; Verna Fields; Bill Butler; Bob Mattey; John Williams; Carl Rizzo; review; Ben Gardner; Alfred Hitchcock; John Ford


Jazz for August

page 1, page 15

keywords: Third Stream; Bond Street; Larry Coryell; Larry Young; Ton Paine's Backroom; Dante's Downstairs; The Bijou Cafe


Artwork

by Gene Suchma

page 1

keywords: Trash; muckraking; Governor; Frank Mazzei; Frank Hilton; campaign button; Kissinger


X

page 3

keywords: Editor; Suchma; cartoons; mankind; nature; human inhumanity


Photos

by Fred Prouser

page 1, page 2, page 7, page 8








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