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Volume 4, Number 48: September 12, 1975 - September 19, 1975

Updated: Nov 27

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from September 12, 1975 - September 19, 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 48 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from September 12 , 1975

Article Index


Renewal creates jobs -- for out of towners

by Christopher Sayer

page 1, page 2

keywords: demolition; Harrisburg Redevelopment; SAS Equiupment Company; North Bergen, N.J.; Cameron Street; Olympia Engineering; Tamaqua; small contractors; "performance bond"; black-owned businesses; Glenwood Trucking; Harristown Development Corporation;unemployment


Scotts will return to face contempt

by Jim Wiggins

page 2, page 13

keywords: Micki Scott; Martin S. Miller; contempt hearing; Judge R. Dixon Herman; Patricia Hearst; Jack Scott; William Kuntzler; grand jury; immunity; Symbionese Liberation Army; FBI; Catherine Hearst; Brandon Alvey


Senate bill would phase out property tax

by Jim Wiggins

page 2, page 14

keywords: Harrisburg area school systems; public education; General Assembly; Sen. John Stauffer; statewide taxes; Sen. Robert Myers; low income persons; personal income tax; business taxes; home ownership; occupational privilege taxes; social security; pension; Judge William Caldwell


Audit the Federal Reserve

by Ralph Nader

page 3

keywords: In the Public Interest; congressional audit; Federal Reserve System; House of Representatives; General Accounting Office; money supply; interest rates; Boenig; Congressman Wright Patman; Arthur Burns; American Bankers Association; inflation; unemployment; home buying; consumer credit


Montage

page 3

keywords: rent subsidies; Housing and Urban Development; abortion; married woman; husband; consent; Planned Parenthood; Clergy Consultation Service; corporations; executives; Braniff International Corporation; Ashland Oil; Goodyear Tire and Rubber; Harrisburg Public Safety Director; James Straub; prostition; jail; New Hampshire; Governor Meldrin Thomson; National Guard; nuclear weapons; New York City; Budget Director Melvin Lechner; bonds; payroll; Municipal Assistance Corp.; censorship; Portugese Revolutionary Council; press; military reports; Martin Sostre; possession of narcotics; New York State; Amnesty International; political prisoners; Sasquatch; Army Corps of Engineers; Washington Environmental Atlas; shark attacks; Naval undersea center; men; hormone


Letters To the Editor

page 4

keywords: Vincente Franzia; blind woman; seeing eye dog; Michelle O'Byer; working people; unions; social justice; Beth Coppinger


Did a lie detector come between you and a job?

page 4

keywords: lie detector tests; American Civil Liberties Union; President Thomas Schmidt; fast food franchise; jewelry store chain; clothing store chain; record store; beauty shop chain; Pennsylvania law


Few try for amnesty, fewer still make it

page 4

keywords: Vietnam War resisters; Pennsylvania Selective Service System; Maj. Kenneth Moore; draft resisters; military deserters; Presidential Clemency Board; less than honorable discharge; alternative service; Undesirable Discharge; National Urban League; President Ford; Richard Nixon; Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.; conscientious objector


In Reply to Philip Berrigan

The Lessons of Vietnam

by Rodger Martin

page 5, page 11

keywords: abscence of consciousness; Readers Forum; morality; self-interest; capitalism; socialism; profit; Chile; Salvador Allende; Portugal; revolution; violence; prices; layoffs; shortages


Timothy Leary jumps the gun

by Pacific News Service

page 5

keywords: federal grand jury; San Francisco; prison; Weather Underground; marijuana; FBI; secret code; Michael Horowitz; Leary archives; escape; John Milano


A volunteer teaches and learns with refugees

by Robert Rafsky

page 6

keywords: Fort Indiantown Gap; Vietnamese refugees; "Under the Trees"; Pennsylvania Education Department; English; South Vietnamese armed forces; middle finger; bullshit; pictures; sponsorship; immigration; redemption


Kipona finally comes off, with controvery

by Jim Zimmerman

page 1, page 7

keywords: postponements; ski show; Kathy McCaughin; Tony and Mae Margio; Jere Engle; Department of Parks and Recreation; Gary Pflugfelder; Harrisburg Seaplane Base; inboard engine boats; outboard engine boats; powder puff race; protest; drivers' meeting; Fish Commission; rules; Susquehanna; race results


Cougars take Lancaster

page 7

keywords: Harrisburg High Cougars; Tornadoes; defensive unit; Marcellus Moore; Jim "Mad Dog" Harrison; Tony "Bosco" Thompson; Tom Speaks; offense; Kevin Diggs; Brad Jackson; Willie Reeves; Terry Plummer


No meal can be posh without summer squash

page 8

keywords: refrigerator crisper; markets; zucchini; scallop; pattypan; yellow crookneck; yellow straightneck; cocozelle; wok; zucchini patties; zucchini with cheese; dilled zuchini-corn combo; kidney bean-zucchini salad; cream of squash-corn soup; zucchini casserole with sour cream; canning; freezing


Local Notes

by Skinny Luke

page 9

keywords: Bond Street; New Jazz Quartet; Crystal; Coventry; Sheriff Jones; Moon; Denny Wade; Third Stream; Nebula; Music Tonight; Greg Kendig; Dave Fishel; Craig Stauffer; American Standard; Sly; Hank Imhoff; Latent Image; Randy Landau; Ed Wambach; 3rd Annual Pa. Bluegrass Festival; Aerosmith; Rod Stewart; Allman Brothers; Earl Scruggs; Doobie Bros.; McEndree Spring


Ebony Fashion Fair

pages 9-10

keywords: Harrisburg Forum


Search is on for Weimer relatives

page 11

keywords: Tucson; Fred H. Weimer; Lykens, Pennsylvania; heirs; Gordon L. Cox; genealogist


I am the prison

by Richard Lorne Hunt

page 11

keywords: Arizona State Prison; lonliness; letters; visitors


Comments on the great potty seat raid

by Richard Hower

page 13

keywords: marijuana; Evening News; toilet seats; Salt Lake Police; "Marijuana Menagerie"; Richard McDonough; Deputy Ralph Tolman; Police Chemist


Women At Work celebrates the everyday

by Sara Greenwald

page 14

keywords: Betty Medsger; Harrisburg YWCA; photography; meat packing; wheat farming; fishing; teaching; nursing; exhibit; physical strength; Konica Autoreflex T3


Two men who love the movies

Richard J. Anobile's Film Classics Library

by Dick Sassaman

page 15

keywords: screen comedians; W.C. Fields; Abbott and Costello; The Marx Brothers; books; film history; Film Classics Library; The Maltese Falcon; Casablanca; Psycho; Ingrid Bergman; Humphrey Bogart; Claude Rains; Peter Lorre; Sidney Greenstreet; Mary Astor; John Huston; Janet Leigh; Frankenstein; Robert Bloch; Bonnie and Clyde


Two men who loved the movies

Alan Warner's Age of the Hollywood Musical

by Dick Sassaman

page 15

keywords: Depression; George Raft; Busby Berkeley; We're In the Money; record albums; Presenting the Golder Age of the Hollywood Musical; Hooray for Hollywood; Gold Diggers of 1933; Dames; Ruby Keeler; Warner Baxter; Shuffle Off To Buffalo; 42nd Street; All's Fair In Love and War; James Cagney; Joan Blondell; Winifred Shaw; Judy Canova; Una Merkel


Music in Central Pennsylvania

Edgar Winter On Record

by Dick Sassaman

page 16

keywords: Hershey Arena; Rick Derringer; Still Alive and Well; Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo; All American Boy; Spring Fever; John Siomos; John Siegler; Chick Corea; The McCoys; Walking the Dog; Dan Hartman; Rock and Roll Woman; Shock Treatment; Frankenstein; Jasmine Nightdreams; White Trash; Roadwork


Music in Central Pennsylvania

The Doobie Brothers at the Farm Show

by Chuck Betti

page 16

keywords: The Outlaws; Southern rock; Tom Johnston; acoustic; electric guitar; John Hartman; Keith Knudsen; Tiran Porter; Pat Simmons; Jeff "Skunk" Baxter; Mike McDonald; Jesus Is Just Alright; Stampede; China Grove; Listen To the Music


Jazz for September

page 16

keywords: Donald Byrd and the Blackbyrds; Avery Fisher Hall; Maynard Ferguson; Count Basie; Frank Sinatra; Ella Fitzgerald


Photos

by Fred Prouser

page 1, page 2, page 7, page 14, page 16








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