Volume 5, Number 1: October 3, 1975 - October 10, 1975

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from October 3, 1975 - October 10, 1975, had 20 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

The Flood Hurricane Eloise in words and pictures

by J.P. Flanagan

page 1, page 5

keywords: National Guard; River Rescue; Coast Guard; King Arthur; Shipoke; Milton Shapp; Japanese whaling fleet

A quiet neighborhood is overrun by trucks

by Chris Biringer

page 2, page 19

keywords: Cloverly Heights; PennDOT; S. 19th Street; Don Welborn; Representative Steve Reed; city incinerator; Scott Warrick; traffic flow; trash; Kimbob Corporation; United Parcel Service; United Electric; Dauphin Electric; Robert Mumma; David C. Sims; din

Pennsylvania electric utilities abuse fuel adjustment clause

by Christopher Sayer

page 2, page 18

keywords: automatic fuel adjustment; electric utilities; Pennsylvania House Mines and Energy Management Committee; Duquesene Light Co.; Metropolitan Edison; West Penn Power; Pennsylvania Power and Light; Pennsylvania Utilities Commission; Bernard O'Brien (D-Luzerne); audit; coal; Island Creek Coal Company; United Mine Workers; royalty; American public Power association; consumer

City, DER meet on dirty drinking water

by Jim Zimmerman

page 2, page 19

keywords: Harrisburg City Coucil; Department of Environmental Resources; water filtration plant; Reservoir Park; Gannett, Fleming, Corddry and Carpenter; chlorine; Terry Fabian; contamination; Sewickley; "waterborne epidemic"; reserve water supply; Dehart Dam; Mayor Harold Swenson; city bond issue; sewerage treatment plant; water testing; membrane filter; Councilwoman Miriam Menaker; Councilman Jack Karper; Serine DiMagno

Beating the oil companies

by Ralph Nader

page 3

keywords: In the Public Interest; farmer-owned oil cooperatives; major oil companies; refineries; pipelines; Sigved Sampson; Midland Cooperatives; International Energy Cooperative; Cooperative League of the USA

Montage

page 3

keywords: Southwestern Bell Telephone; T.O. Gravitt; suicide; corruption; Securities and Exchange Commission; telephone companies; Bell System; Center for Science In the Public Interest; natural breakfast cereals; Kellogg; Charles Reich; The Greening of America; rebellious behavior; youth; Sen. Lee Metcalf; electric utilities; American Electric Power; Georgia Power; Carolina Power and Light; Con Ed; Philadelphia Electric; federal taxes; Pennsylvania Department of Education; corporal punishment; school districts; panhandler; Omar's School for Beggars; graduate school; Attica; New York Governor Hugh Carey; police crimes; Judge Bernard Meyer; Pisa, Italy; Mayor Lazzeri; dogs; Earl and Lucille Hansen; Vietnamese refugees; nudist colony; 'naturalist resort'

Patty's affadavit gives clues to her defense

by Becky O'Malley/PNS

page 4

keywords: Patricia Hearst; duress; insanity; diminished capacity; William and Emily Harris; bank robbery; Hibernia Bank; federal charge; kidnapping; California charges; psychiatric experts; mental hospital; fugue; Attorney Charles Garry; political trials

Flood brings out the best in people

by Jim Zimmerman

page 6

keywords: Susquehanna River; National Guard; evacuation centers; clean-up; Cameron Street; Shipoke; Agnes; Eloise

Feuilleton

by Dick Sassaman

page 6

keywords: political persecution; Susquehanna; Sunken Garden; National Guard; Patriot-News; Pennsylvania farmers; flood; Eloise; John Serbell

What can be done to prevent future floods?

by Jim Wiggins

page 7, page 18

keywords: Susquehanna River; "sparkling waters"; Agnes Eloise; flooding; Maurice Goddard; Secretary of Environmental Resources; Yellow Breeches; Paxtang; Conodoguinet; Army Corps of Engineers; Raystown Lake Project; dam; Tioga-Hammond Lakes Project; Wilkes Barre; flood plain management bill; local governments; Pennsylvania Builders' Association

Camp & New Camp: The emergence of decadence

by Richard Hower

page 8, page 10

keywords: essay on culture; Andy Warhol; Maxfield Parrish; Tiffany lamps; Art Nouveau; bad art; Susan Sontag; Busby Berkely; extravagance; sense of humor; Hunter Thompson; Gonzo journalism; "The Nostalgia Craze"; fashion designers; clothing styles; movies; "American Graffiti"; pop music; Elton John; Camp Ballet; elitism; Anti-New Camp Movement

A shopper's guide to pharmacies

page 9

keywords: HIP Consumer; non-prescription drugs; Pathmark; Revco; Rite Aid; Thrift Drugs; Rea & Derick; Lipman Pharmacy; tylenol; aspirin; Excedrin; cough syrup; Contac; Novahistine; Murine; Pepto-Bismol; Dristan; Ex-Lax; Sleep-Eze; contraceptive foam; vaginal douche; Anusol

82 items that are exempt from state sales tax

page 9

keywords: Department of Revenue; cleansers; aspirin; dietary supplements; tape; paper towels; sunburn lotion; vitamins

I'll be stewing you in apple picking time

page 10

keywords: organic apples; applesauce; apple butter; apple pie; apple wheat germ coffee cake; creamed apple butter; apple mead

Local Notes

by Skinny Luke

page 11

keywords: Latent Image; Third Stream; Squire; Everyday People; Greenstreet; Free and Easy; The Shades of Dawn; David Fox; Bandana; Dave Fishel; Craig Stauffer; American Standard; Ed Wambach; Randy Landau; Taj Mahal; Rick Wakeman; Rod Stewart; Doobie Brothers

A Suchma retrospective HIP, 1971--1975

by Dick Sassaman

page 15, page 16, page 17

keywords: jury of his peers; Cleveland; Fred Solowey; Ed Zuckerman; drawings; cartoons; Nixon; "Male Chauvinism and the Artistic Ego"; Richard Nixon Playbook; Dan Berrigan; Exorcist; Jonathan Livingston Seagull; Michaelangelo; Marx Brothers; Charlie Chaplin; Harrisburg Art Association; free-lancing; A Last Babble On; Food! Glorious Food!; subscription; George Allen; bombing of North Vietnam; ornithologist; A.M.F.; stop sign; Menace of Venice; YWCA; What's Up, Docking; Hanging Gardener of Babylon; John-Boy; Stan Luxenberg; John Dean; The Bride of Frankie Stein; Rockefeller; Hamlet; Charles Colson; Vietnamese orphans; local community standards

Cougars still on top

page 19

keywords: Williamsport; Steve Harris; Central Penn League; Kevin Diggs; Len Taylor; Marcellus Moore; Larry Mitchell; Cougar defense

Books Brothers Keepers

by Dick Sassaman

page 20

keywords: novel; Donald E. Westlake; Brother Benedict; Puerto Rico; Crispinite Order of the Novum Mundum; monastery; high-rise office space; Jimmy the Kid; Too Much; Up Your Banners; Abbott Oliver; Brother Gideon; monks

Jazz for October

page 20

keywords: Bobbi Humphrey; Third Stream; Gil Scott-Heron; Anthony Braxton; Latent Image; George Benson; Esther Phillips; Rashaan Roland Kirk; Oliver Lake; Gary Burton; Oregon; Louis Haynes Quintet; Herbie Mann; Weather Report; Grover Washingtpm, Jr.; Tim Weisberg; Gato Barbieri; Stan Kenton Big Band; Maynard Ferguson; Ronnie Laws; Benny Goodman; New York Bass Violin Choir

Photos

by Levy

page 1, page 5

by John Serbell

page 2, page 5, page 6

by Jim Flanagan

page 5, page 6

page 11, page 12

keywords: Kim Simmons; Savoy Brown; Franklin and Marshall College; Willie Dixon; Baby

Artwork

by Gene Suchma

page 15, page 16, page 17

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