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Volume 4, Number 49: September 19, 1975 - September 26, 1975

Updated: Dec 2, 2025

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from September 19, 1975 - September 26, 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 49 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from September 19, 1975

Article Index


The ten most powerful men in Harrisburg

by Jim Wiggins/HIP staff

page 5, page 6, apge 7, page 13

keywords: Profile; power elite; economic resources; chief executives; Joseph T. Simpson; HARSCO; Cleve Fredericksen; Joseph Brenner; AMP; Harold S. Mohler; Hershey Foods; multinational corporations; Wilson Lewis; John C. Tuten; George L. Morrison Jr.; bankers; Dauphin Deposit Trust; Tuesday Club; philanthropy; means of production; Presbyterian; George F. Dixon, Jr.; Carlisle Corp.; tires; Wilson D. Lewis; Polyclinic Hospital; Frank E. Masland III; Masland and Sons; carpet; John Birch Society; Hershey Foods Corp.; Milton Hershey School; Commonwealth National Bank; Robert M. Mumma; Pennsy Supply; Kimbob; Secretary of Commerce; land development; Republican politics; Richard Nixon; howitzer; Pennsylvania Power and Light; National Central Bank; Federal Reserve Bank; Americans for the Competitive Enterprise System; Harrisburg Hospital; Kline Foundation; Penna. Manufacturers Association Insurance


City is uncommitted on dirty drinking water

by Jim Zimmerman

page 2, page 11

keywords: Harrisburg water; Department of Environmental Resources; Terry Fabian; bacteriological contamination; filtration; water testing lab; Mayor Harold Swenson; Susquehanna River; Harrisburg City Council; chlorination; Dehart Dam; Ganett, Fleming, Corddry and Carpenter


Charlie Day is his own boss

by Richard Lieby

page 2, page 11

keywords: trucking; Freightliner; independent; steel; inflation; long distance driving; Tulsa


ACLU will push bail reform bill

page 2, page 14

keywords: "Pre-trial Release Act"; American Friends Service Committee; Representative Joseph Rhodes; nominal bail; money bail; probation; parole; American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania


Oceans of wealth

by Ralph Nader

page 3

keywords: In the Public Interest; fishery firms; world hunger; Alaskan pollock; brand name fish; shrimp; government subsidies; producer cooperatives; underfished species; foreign markets


Montage

page 3

keywords: bacteria; biodegradable plastics; G.J.L. Griffin; Dr. Ananda L. Chakrabarty; genetic engineering; anthracite miner; black lung disease; black lung claims; Congressman Daniel J. Flood; benefit program; Bogota, Columbia; Container Corporation of America; B.F. Goodrich; prison inmates; Equal Rights Amendment; insurance companies; health insurance; Mutual of Omaha; Mayor Frank Rizzo; Philadelphia; "dream house"; Linda Salcedo; California Teen Pageant; talent; dynamite; U.S. Capitol; National Enquirer; reporter; backwater capital city; Abe Beame; Hearst hunt; 'New Times'; police officers; white people; black people; Los Angeles; Chief Ed Davis


Letters To the Editor

page 4

keywords: drunkenness; epilepsy; stroke; handicapped people; law enforcement officials; Elisabeth Ellenbogen; Stephen R. Reed; school taxes; school district budgets; poverty school districts; Chester-Upland; Dennis Boyer; cooperative socialism; corporate fascism


Accross the Bar

by Christopher Sayer

page 4

keywords: property taxes; schools; consumers; local taxes; low-income families; land speculators; state control


The parts they left out of the Paxton Herald

by Richard Hower

page 1, page 7

keywords: Bozo Herald; Bulwark of Barter; review; Boenig B-17; for sale; artichoke peeler; for rent; hippies; queers; Perry Como; Frank Lloyd Wright; electric guitar; Giant Tap Dancing Duck; Studebaker; electric train set; robot; cathedral pipe organ; space vehicle; tunnel


Electronic flea market draws downtown crowd

by Jean McLaughlin

page 8

keywords: downtown Harrisburg; transistors; condensers; resisters; Park-N-Shop; Robert L. Marzari; Central Pa. Repeaters Assoc.; hamfests; professional dealors


Sports Help send Alvin to L.A.

by J. Morris/ B. Jackson

page 8

keywords: Alvin Cook; karate world championship; United States Karate Team; Amateur Athletic Union; Walter Dobson; Youth Urban Services; Harrisburg High School; Dobson Golden Dragon Isshinryu Karate Club


Never invade a cougar's den

page 8

keywords: Wyoming Valley West Spartans; Harrisburg High Cougars; Brad Jackson; Terry Plummer; Mike Summers; Kevin Diggs; Willie Reeves; Tony "Bosco" Thompson; Galen Allen; Gary Byrd; Tom Speaks; fumbles


Local Notes

by Skinny Luke

page 9

keywords: Coventry; No Cigar; Silent Way; Radiants; Everyday People; Free and Easy; Ray Eiker; Nickel Plated Rose; 21st Century; Stillborn; Dave Fishel; Greg Kendig; Dennis Hopper; Third Stream; American Standard; Hot Ice; Ed Wambach; Aerosmith; Pa. Blue Grass Festival; Frank Zappa


These recipes are a real peach

page 13

keywords: canning; freezing; drying; peaches; Rochester; Late Glo; Eden; Golden jubilee; Wisconsin; Hale; Ranger; Fuzzless Gold; Polly; Elberta; dried peaches; Vitamin C; Baked Peach Whip; Frozen Fruit Dessert; syrup; peach butter; peach ice cream; recipe


Things to do this fall

compiled by Beth Coppinger

page 14

keywords: HACC; University Center; Harrisburg School District; Art; Doshi Academy; painting; drawing; Art Association of Harrisburg; phography; wood carving; Dance and Drama; Harrisburg Performing Arts Studio; ballet; slimnastics; Harrisburg Community Theater; YMCA; swim classes; delf-defense; YWCA; Karate; Gymnastics; Tennis; The Harrisburg Craftsman; pottery; weaving; guitar; Jesua ben Josef School of Religion; neuropsychology; spiritual expression; Marriage and Communication


Bail fund meeting set

page 14

keywords: Dauphin County Bail program; John Anderson; Lehigh Valley Bail Fund; Harrisburg Uptown Neighbors Together; money bail; incarceration; bondspersons; United Church of Christ; collateral; pretrial release


Books: The 30- year war of Lt. Onoda

by Dick Sassaman

page 16

keywords: No Surrender, My Thirty Year War, a Memoir; Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda; time travellers; soldiers; Japanese Imperial Army; Sergeant Shoichi Yokoi; Guam; Philippines; commando training; guerilla warfare; Kinshichi Kosuka; Norio Suzuki; Major Yoshimi Taniguchi; Tenuo Nakamura


Photos

by Fred Prouser

page 2


by Levy

page 2


by Norio Suzuki

page 16


Artwork

by R.M Schreiber

page 4








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