Volume 4, Number 9: November 29, 1974 - December 6, 1974
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- Aug 1, 2023
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Updated: May 29
This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from November 29, 1974 - December 6, 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
City uses test that eliminates minority cop applicants
by John Serbell
page 1, page 2, page 8
keywords: recruitment; Public Safety Director James Straub; Mayor Harold Swenson; Human Relations Commission; Harrisburg; female police officers; Robert Mendelsohn; merit selection; oral interviews; residency
Ma State cushions the burg from hard times
by Jim Wiggins
page 2, page 8
keywords: workforce; government; unemployment; Bureau of Employment Security; auto parts; textile industry; construction; AMP; Capitol Products; Fruehauf; Hershey Foods; steel industry
Letters To the Editor
page 3, page 6
keywords: Senator William B. Lentz; Paxton Herald; welfare system; Dauphin County Board of Assisstance; welfare regulations; Bureau of Employment Security; strikers; Joseph V. Behe, Jr.; neighborhood; diversity; Charles Gary Signor; protective enclave
Power to the people
by Ralph Nader
page 3, page 6
keywords: Ed and Joyce Koupal; referendum; recall; initiative; constitutional amendment; campaign spending limits; Proposition 9; California; petition; special interest groups; "Tools for Self-Government"
View From the Bottom
by J.P. Flanagan
page 3
keywords: "Scoop Dixon"; oil depletion allowance; House Ways and Means Committee; walrus-blubber; ESSO; Eskimoes; United States Army
Brotherhood beat
by Art Kerns
page 3, page 7
keywords: Office for Aging; Dauphin County; Ecumenical Task Force; inflation; Good Neighbor Fund; fuel bills; Archie Bunker; Ecumenical Flood Recovery Fund
9 prisoners sue state, charge inhuman treatment
by Jim Zimmerman
page 4
keywords: State Correctional Institution at Pittsburgh; Behavioral Adjustment Unit; solitary confinement; disciplinary hearing; class action suit; Governor Shapp; Consent Order; basement; Jeffrey mims; constitutional rights; Pennsylvania Bureau of Corrections; Representative David Richardson
Burying the axe at Wounded Knee
by Wounded Knee Legal Defense Offense Committee
page 4
keywords: Stanley Neptune; Penobscot; American Indian Movement; jury; Rachael White Dress; burglary; larceny; Wounded Knee Trading Post; acquittals; Wounded Knee protestors
Montage
page 4
keywords: House Foreign Aiod bill; Cambodia; Rep. Herm Schneebeli; exchange students; deportation; South Vietnam; Immigration Court; Thioeu regime; political asylum; imprisonment; U.S. Interior Department; environmental impact statement; oil; offshore areas; Southern California; public hearings; U.S. Navy; "slave labor"; Naval officers; servants; Chinese; Filipinos; Admiral James Holloway; Guy Goodwin; Robert Mardian; Justice Department; VVAW; contempt of court; informants; perjury; court action; limited immunity; testimony
Pentagon planners see big blimps in the sky
by Howard Dratch/PNS
page 5
keywords: San Francisco; U.S. Navy; aerospace companies; helium; lighter than air ships; submarines; airships; Air Force; counter-insurgency; amphibious landing; military affairs
Do it yourself, make your own baby food
page 6
keywords: sugar; starch; preservatives; healthy foods; blender; vegetables; fruit; meats; cereals; freezing; oatmeal; applesauce; green beans; potatoes; veal
Feuilleton
by Dick Sassaman
page 6
keywords: Charles and Walter Ross; Germantown, Pennsylvania; fireworks; kidnapping; ransom; Joseph Douglass; William Mosher; Jay Robert Nash; Bloodletters and Badmen; William Westervelt; scholastic sports; Sandy Springs Friends School; Sports Illustrated; Friedlefrappe; Hoop-A-Doop; Brindledorph; Cooble-tufted Wahwah; "Prehistoric Animals of the Middle West"; James Thurber
Third Stream: Music for the masses?
by Dick Sassaman
page 9
keywords: Review; Jim Miller; bass player; jazz; Lawson's; Rick Kline; Bruce Whitcomb; Tom Strohman; Jazz Monthly; Dante's; Martini's; Modern Jazz Quartet; Joe Intrieri; East Pennsboro High School; students; Arthur Custer; Dwight Peltzer; improvisation; teaching experience; Jazz Radio; WMSP-FM; WITF-FM; WHP-AM; WRHY-FM; WSBA-FM; WTPA-FM
Jazz Art
page 9
keywords: Benjamin Sholl; Al Morrison Group; oil pastels; paintings; New York Jazz Museum; "Cloth-Time Rag"; "Sax Section 1924"; "Special Chorus"; "Buxtehude to Basso-Lasso"; Colomial Park; New York City; improvisation
Market Square's Attica film raises questions, answers few
by Stephen Sartarelli
page 11
keywords: Market Square Presbyterian Church; American Bar Association; New York State Commission; sentiments; motives; investigation; New York State Commissioner of Corrections; amnesty; negotiations; Governor Rockefeller; Stuart Werner; Pennsylvania Commissioner of Corrections; racism; prison industry
Artwork
by Gene Suchma
page 1
keywords: Take Off Your Blinders; subscribe
Photos
by Sartarelli
page 2
by Handloser
page 5
by Bill Schriber
page 9
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