Volume 4, Number 45: August 15, 1975 - August 22, 1975

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from August 15, 1975 - August 22, 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

Citizens push city on housing issue

by Jim Zimmerman

page 1, page 2, page 8

keywords: low income neighborhoods; Anthony Dodaro; Citizens' Tax Economy League; banks; 'redlining'; Uptown Community Campaign; Deedee Runkle; discrimination; Grandon Real Estate; city government; condemned house; VA; FHA; foreclosures; Housing Code Enforcement; Dale Hostrup; City Council; Paul Doutrich; State Representative Steve Reed; fire insurance benefits; uptown Harrisburg

Lids, lids, who's got the lids?

by Sara Greenwald

page 2

keywords: canning lids; Representative William O. Shuman; Agriculture and Dairies Committee; unfair business practice; Consumer Protection Committee; one-piece lids; Gerald Kuhn; Pennsylvania Grocers' Association; large chain stores; Pennsylvania Retailers' Association; Bell; Kerr; Bernardin; Del Monte; Green Giant; Rep. Joseph Zeller

Labor exchange

by Ralph Nader

page 3

keywords: In the Public Interest; Senator William Proxmire; laborer; Wisconsin; garbage man; GM; Housing and Urban Development; Salvation Army; consumer cooperatives; Henry Ford II; Thomas Murphy; Earl Butz

Montage

page 3

keywords: Environmental protection Agency; chlordane; heptachlor; pesticides; cancer; Committee for Reunion with England; American Revolution; Tories; amnesty; slavery; farm workers; South Jersey; Marcos Portalatin; farms; organic fertilizers; pest control; market value; double standard; prostitution; scabs; refugees; United Farm Workers; California; Teamsters; Vietnamese; Eliseo Mendina; Food For the Hungry; unions; IRS; Commissioner Donald Alexander; undercover agent; congressman Anthony Moffet; Rep. Robert Drinan; Illinois; Commission On the Status of Women; Phyllis Schaflay; Ruth Bateman; anti-ERA activists

Letters

page 3

keywords: Soul Sisters; National Junior Tennis League; Golden Gales; New York; tournament; rematch

Fishing for Patty, FBI hooks Micki instead

by James Flanagan

page 1, page 4, page 11

keywords: terrorists; Micki Scott; Patty Hearst; Harrisburg grand jury; Symbionese Liberation Army; Judge R. Dixon Herman; Sam Giancana; CIA; Fidel Castro; grand jury system; "fishing expeditions"; "contempt of court"; William Kuntzler; subpoena; underground revolutionaries; FBI's most wanted list; Pentagon; Selective Service; State Department; harassment; FBI

Solowey, McAlister to address Scott rally

by Christopher Sayer

page 4

keywords: Jack and Micki Scott; Elizabeth McAlister; Harrisburg "7"; grand jury system; Fred Solowey; National Coalition to End Grand Jury Abuse; subpoenas; Patty Hearst; Pat Swinton; Curtis Mullins; SLA; Black Liberation Army; Margaret Ratner; wiretapping; surveillance; Walter Scott; Judge Herman

Milton Shapp and the Williamsport Cable Deal

SEC to investigate Shapp TV deal

by Charles Oliver/ "Access Magazine"

page 5

keywords: World Series; Bannock Cable TV; cable television industry; anti-trust judgments; stock sale; Securities and Exchange Commission; Williamsport cable system; President of the United States; Pennsylvania legislature; Otis Littleton; franchise

CONSUMER SCOPE

page 6

keywords: oil companies; prices; Texaco; ARCO; Shell; coffee beans; Brazilian frost; Brazilian federal coffee agency; aluminum; steel; plastics; pork; oral contraceptives; heart attacks; import prices; domestic prices; "Be An Open-eyed Consumer"; WITF-FM; WIOO; WFEC; WGAL; WHP; WHYL-FM; WGET-FM; WHVR; Bureau of Consumer Affairs

Across the Bar

by Christopher Sayer

page 6

keywords: Watergate; Richard Nixon; Milton Shapp; campaign; Michael Baker; Pennsylvania Democratic Committee; contractors; Senator Frank Mazzei; Department of Transportation; fraud; Rep. Leonard Sweeney; mail fraud; Frank Hilton; House Speaker Joshua Eilberg; Governor Marvin Mandel; corruption

Out of the Sweatshop ILGWU 75th Anniversary Exhibit

by Beth Coppinger

page 7

keywords: photographic exhibit; International Ladies' Garment Workers Union; William Penn Museum; AFL-CIO; garment industry; sweat shops; tuberculosis; child labor; Triangle Shirtwaist Co.; Triangle fire; 35-hour work week; retirement benefits; health clinics

A reporter looks at unemployment

by James Field/PNS

page 8

keywords: Black unemployment; National Urban League; Council of Economic Advisors; Alan Greenspan; Emergency Emplyment Act; welfare; President Ford; inflation; permanent unemplyment

Local Notes

by Skinny Luke

page 9

keywords: Ramsey Lewis; Todd Rundgren; Leo Kottke; Linda Ronstadt; Beach Boys; Melanie

An ex-CIA man takes you 'Inside the Company'

by Dennis Boyer

page 11

keywords: Inside the Company: CIA Diary; Philip Agee; censorship; U.S. intelligence operations; covert operations; foreign policy; torture; unions; universities; Organizing Committee for a Fifth Estate; Center for National Security Studies; Cuban spy

Healthy and sweet, and good to eat

page 13

keywords: sugar; fruit; dessert recipes; nuts; broiled bananas; whole wheat fruit slices; berries; fruit souffle; strawberry omelet; strawberry mousse; fruit yogurt whip; whole wheat spongecake; colonial custard; organic cheescake; pineapples; watermelons

The Producers

by John Serbell

page 14

keywords: Refugee Relief concert; Hersheypark Stadium; American Red Cross Refugee Relief Fund; Harvey Ziskis; Bob White; Tara Productions; John Lennon; Fred Lauver; TV Host; screw-up; 'con game'

Bruce Springsteen

by Dick Sassaman

page 15

keywords: Kutztown; Asbury Park, New Jersey; poet balladeer; rocker; Mike Appel; Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.; Blinded By the Light; Bob Dylan; The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle; Kitty's Back; Rosalito; Incident on 57th Street; New York City Serenade; Clarence Clemons

Bruce Springsteen In Appreciation

by Jeffreey Kauffman

page 15

keywords: Kutztown State College; Bob Dylan; poetry; Hubert Selby; sailor jeans; black leather jacket; Fender telecaster; six-man band; Roy Battan; Sandy; Quarter To Three; Gary U.S. Bonds; violinist; cult

Nashville

by Dick Sassaman

page 16

keywords: Film Review; Robert Altman; metaphor; politics; country music; 24 characters; Henry Gibson; Lily Tomlin; Haven Hamilton; Keep a-Goin'; Hal Philip Walker; President; Keith Carradine; Keenan Wynn; Ned Beatty; Allen Garfield; Ronee Blakeley; Shelley Duvall; Barbara Jean; Elliott Gould; Julie Christie

The Soundtrack

by Dick Sassaman

page 16

keywords: Nashville; Gwen Welles; Keith Carradine; I'm Easy; Henry Gibson; 200 Years; Richard Baskin; Vassar Clements; Ronee Blakeley; My Idaho Home; Barbara Harris; It Don't Worry Me

Artwork

by Gene Suchma

page 1

keywords: A Last Babble On...; Cole Robby; Hannah Robby; Hanging Gardener of Babylon

Photos

by Fred Prouser

page 1, page 2, page 4

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