Volume 4, Number 8: November 22, 1974 - November 29, 1974

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from November 22, 1974 - November 29, 1974, had 12 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

People power brings a city block back to life

by Carol Chromicky

page 1, page 2, page 8

keywords: environment; cities; residential areas; working-class neighborhoods; Ron Yingling; Penn Street; absentee landlords; renovation; Edwin Meals; Urban Homesteading; poor people; displacement

Will success spoil Stephen Reed?

by Jim Wiggins

page 2, page 8

keywords: Democratic Chairman; George Gekas; state representative; Clifford Dillman; political campaign; Mayor Harold Swenson; Crawford Murdoch; civic Organizations; minorities; Harrisburg; fire protection; charisma

Federal cutbacks kill OIC program

by Jim Zimmerman

page 2, page 5

keywords: Ronald Elliott; Director of Training; Opportunities Industrialization Center; jobs; disadvantaged people; night program; GED; basic education; job placement; revenue sharing; black professionals; Cameron School Building; trainees; typing; office skills

Letters To the Editor

page 3

keywords: Uptown Branch Library; Marilyn R. Kanenson; thank you; Harrisburg High School; Student Council; pride; Ben Turner; Patnews; communication; Conne Reese; grocery store; Clyde King; murder; West Shore Police; migrants; profits

Congress's Nuclear Prpoblem

by Ralph Nader

page 3, page 7

keywords: Senator John O. Pastore; nuclear energy; capital costs; plants; arms control; Price Anderson Act; Atomic Energy Commission; waste disposal; utilities; reactor manufacturers; energy conservation; solar energy; geothermal; petition; Task Force Against Nuclear Pollution; initiative; California

View From the Bottom

by J.P. Flanagan

page 3

keywords: "Scoop" Dixon; abandoned cars; gasoline tax; 1976; ambulances; fire engines; police cars

Montage

page 4

keywords: Senator George McGovern; World Food Conference; military budgets; war on hunger; oil revenues; Fitzsimons Army Medical Center; Colorado; breast enlargements; facelift operations; military surgeons; League of Women Voters; Equal Rights Amendment; sex discrimination; Congressmen; Senators; "business" trips; China; Rome; junkets; Congressional Record; Attorney General Saxbe; "Cointelpro"; FBI office; burglary; Ku Klux Klan; SDS; Black Panthers; IRS; Nazis; Urban League

Vets want bigger G.I. Bill

by Stephen Sartarelli

page 4

keywords: Vietnam Veterans; demonstration; Washington; jobs; Sen. Schweiker; veto; President Ford

Met-Ed wants you to understand

page 4

keywords: Metropolitsn Edison Company; rate filing; rate increase; Public Utilities Commission; Met-Ed President; Walter M. Creitz; libraries

National march and rally against racism

page 4

keywords: Massachusetts; Senator-elect William Owens; Boston; human rights; justice; school children; mob violence; education; Emergency Committee for a National Mobilization Against Racism

Feuilleton

by Dick Sassaman

page 5

keywords: Commonwealth Railways; Australia; Indian-Pacific Train; John Kenneth Galbraith; Travel and Leisure; straight line; kangarooo; People Magazine; Michael Landon; Bonanza; Little Joe Cartwright; Ponderosa ranch; WIN; Whip Inflation Now; President Ford; CIA; Whip Imperialism Now; Larry Winn; Kansas; Pennsylvania School Press Association; Penn Harris Motor Inn; United Press International; CBS TV; Dan Rather

Was racism the reason why Cougars lost this year?

page 5

keywords: Harrisburg High School; football players; head coach; Joe Makosky; practice; white coaches; Keithy Moore; nigger; George Kolarac; school board; racial slurs

City looks for missing flood victims

page 5

keywords: Hurricane Agnes; Redevelopment Authority; flood relief benefits

Comparartive prices at 7 East Shore markets

page 6

keywords: HIP consumer; Giant; Warehouse Food Mart; Pathmark; Acme: Pantry Pride; Weis; A&P; chocolate syrup; wheat germ; applesauce; salt; sugar; syrup; waffle mix; evaporated milk; peanut butter; fruit cocktail; apple juice; apple cider vinegar; Gatorade; prune juice

Why not fast instead of feast this Thanksgiving

by Diane Di Prima/WIN Magazine

page 6

keywords: Pilgrims; Indians; East Coast tribes; San Francisco; friendship; love; music; poetry; Thanksgiving Fast Fund; BIA schools; children; boarding schools

D.C. activists begin fast

page 6

keywords: Washington Community for Non-Violent Action; World Food Conference; Mitch Snyder; Ellen Hombs; famine; United States Government; Fast Fund for Famine Relief

McHale: 'half a billion people will starve'

page 7

keywords: World Food Conference; James McHale; Secretary of Agriculture; U.S. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz; World Food Council; United Nations; agricultural development; irrigation; nutritional aid; research; food supply; profit; production; multinational corporations; grain traders; Russian Wheat Deal; farmers; bread; food reserves; world hunger

The Star-Spangled Girl

by Dick Sassaman

page 9

keywords: Review; Theater; Louise; The Guide; Little Theater of Mechanicsburg; Neil Simon; Richard Charles; West Shore Times; Andy; Norman; Bruce Pinto; Bob Crawford; radical magazine; Sophie Rauschmeyer; Mary Neagley; The Odd Couple; San Francisco; 1966

Books Books Books

by Dick Sassaman

page 9

keywords: Review; Lethal Gas; Ron Kurz; novel; Maryland; prison system; strikes; riots; scandals; Enrique Rojas; C.C. Taylor; Alphus Warrenship Starr; "The Creep"; The Powerhouse Gang; rape; drugs; murder

Crafts Exhibition '74

page 11

keywords: Gallery Doshi

Artwork

by Gene Suchma

page 1

keywords: Food! Glorious Food!; starving people; grain; Butz; inflation

Photos

by Chromicky

page 1

by John Serbell

page 2, page 7

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