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Volume 5, Number 10: December 5, 1975 - December 12, 1975

  • Dec 12, 1975
  • 4 min read

Updated: Jan 28

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from December 5, 1975 - December 12, 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 5, Number 10 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from December 5, 1975

Article Index


Who killed George Jackson?

New evidence challenges official version of death

by Eve Pell/PNS

page 1, page 7, page 8

keywords: San Quentin prison; Malcolm X; assassination; gag rule; San Quentin Six; prison officials; law enforcement officials; Judge Henry Broderick; coroner; John Manwaring; John Frank; Frank Bortfield; David Q. Burd; cover-up


Advertising inflates cost of food

page 2, page 13

keywords: food industry; large corporations; 'oligopoly'; federal tax law; business expense; ready-to-eat cereal; vegetable oil; Wesson Oil; Crisco; Proctor & Gamble; hot cereal; Quaker; General Mills; Pillsbury; Chicken of the Sea; Campbell Soup; capital investment; Fred Harris; President Ford


U.S. labor pains at HACC

What?! A demonstration?!

by Richard Leiby

page 2, page 6

keywords: United States Labor Party; Harrisburg Area Community College; New Solidarity; Trum Simmons; demonstrations; Student Government Association; Dean of Students Jay Ebersole; college administrators


Businesses overwhelm 19th Street residents at PennDOT hearing

by Christine Biringer

page 2, page 16

keywords: noise pollution; trucks; Friendship Center industrial complex; city incinerator; Cloverly Heights homeowners; Tom Caldwell; Central Storage and Transfer; David Sims; Robert Mumma; Pennsy Supply; Representative Stephen Reed; City Council; Anthony Dodaro; Scott Warrick; Paul Doutrich


A corporate watchdog

by Ralph Nader

page 3

keywords: In the Public Interest; Security and Exchange Commission; Stanley Sporkin; Penn Central; Equity Funding; SEC Chairman Ray Garrett; accountants; lawyers; regulatory agency; Roderick Hills


Montage

page 3

keywords: pulsar; space; universe; packaging industry; Environmental Protection Agency; paper; glass; aluminum; Coalition To End Grand Jury Abuse; Leslie Bacon; Mayday demonstrations; bombing; U.S. Capitol; Justice Department; Justice William O. Douglas; Simeon Booker; Nixon tapes; Medicaid; Department of Health, Education and Welfare; Dr. Martin Garfinkle; John Kalata; Jerry London; Nathan Blinn; Jack Silvers; mouse; marijuana; San Jose Police Department; NORML; Jim Roberts; Montreal Canadians; President Ford; University of Michigan; toilets; White House


Letters To the Editor

page 4

keywords: nuclear disarmament; nuclear arms race; White House; Jonah House; Civil Disobeidance; grave digging; India; France; Britain; Soviet Union; People's Republic of China; Jim McNeil; Dan Sanders; Phil Berrigan; "civil defense"; Joan Burds; J. Edward Dudgeon; Ladon Sheats; Joan Cavanagh; "unlawful entry"; "destruction of government property"; Baltimore


Across The Bar

by Christopher Sayer

page 4

keywords: Rep. Stephen Reed; law and order; police witnesses; incarceration; alternative programs; crime; victim counseling; community mediation; Rape Crisis Center; domestic tranquility


'Loitering' law latest in Middletown's war on teens

by John Serbell

page 5

keywords: Middletown Borough Council; curfew; police chief Steve Mrakovich; First Amendment rights; attorney Andrew Schneider; U.S. District Court


WKBO to purchase Starview

page 5

keywords: Federal Communications Commission; WRHY; Dorea Corporation; Michael Rea; "album rock" format; teenagers; young adults; rock music; Gordon Moul; Albert Dame; advertising


Prohibition marches on

The WCTU, yesterday and today

by Richard Kaplan

page 6

keywords: Women's Christian Temperance Union; Mrs. Walter Bernheisel; tobacco; narcotics; alcohol; pamphlets; movies; lectures; 18th Amendment; twenty first amendment; Frances Willard; women's suffrage; living wage; Equal Rights Amendment; Jesus


Ronald MakDonNow makes it big in Hong Kong

by Richard Borsuk/Agence France Presse/PNS

page 6

keywords: global franchising; Ronald McDonald; apple pies; Daniel Ng; Kentucky Fried Chicken; Colonel Saunders; "finger-lickin' good"; menu


Community Organizing Workshop

page 6

keywords: Harrisburg WYCA; civic organizations; organizing skills; Richard Kinane; Deb Baldwin


Will the masses ever see 'Hearts and Minds'?

by Jim Zimmerman

page 8

keywords: Academy Award; Best Documentary; Vietnam; Reg Childs; RBC Films; Penn State Capitol Campus; Peter Davis; Burt Schneider; Walt Rostow; Warner Brothers; Joe Griffin; East 4; United Artists Cinemas; Randy Floyd; college campuses


U.S. expands arms sales to Brazil

by PNS

page 8

keywords: Ford administration; U.S. weapons; military training; ally


Local Notes

by Skinny Lucy

page 8

keywords: Latent Image; Coventry; Everyday People; The Music Man; White Rose; Hank Emcough; Windfall; Branded Country; Elmer J. Fudd; Squire; Racey; Music Machine; Colonial Five; Third Stream; Little Red; Ben Barber; Craig Stouffer; American Standard; Steamed Clams; Moon; Squire; Randy Landau; Ed Wambach; Janis Ian; Hall & Oates; Bruce Springsteen; The Who


Help Your Kids and Schools

page 11

keywords: parents; students; Superintendent of Schools; Ben Turner; Harrisburg City Schools; public meeting; Emergency School Aid Act


Fill your belly with some cranberry jelly

page 14

keywords: cranberries; Vitamin C; cranberry bread; cranberry sauce; cranberry-orange muffins; cranberry apple pie; cranberry relish; cranberry cheese bread


Plants The making of a terrarium

by Cindy Leitzel

page 14

keywords: bottle gardens; glass container; drainage material; charcoal; soil; African violets; orchids; ferns; begonias


Jazz

The lyrical John Coltrane

by Dick Sassaman

page 15

keywords: The Gentle Side of John Coltrane; High Step; Paul Chambers; Africa/Brass; Miles Davis; saxophonist; A Love Supreme; Ascension; Meditations; Om; Cosmic Music; Selflessness; McCoy Tyner; Jimmy Garrison; Elvin Jones; Blue Note; Philly Joe Jones; Nixon, Dixon and Yates Blues


Jazz

Ronnie Laws; Bobby Hutcherson

by Dick Sassaman

page 15

keywords: Pressure Sensitive; Montara; Blue Note; Hubert Laws; David Newman; The Jazz Crusaders; Last Days and Time; Earth, Wind and Fire; Wilton Felder; Joe Sample; salsa sound; Bobby Matos; Victor Pantoja; Johnny Paloma; Rudy Calzado; Oye Como Va; Yuyo


Jazz

Billy Cobham; Herbie Hancock; Stanley Clarke; Jan Hammer

by Dick Sassaman

page 15, page 16

keywords: A Funky Thide of Sings; Man-Child; Journey To Love; The First Seven Days; jazz rock; Mahavishnu Orchestra; creation; Steve Kindler; synthesizers; funk; Chick Corea; Return To Forever; Concerto For Jazz Rock Orchestra; Milcho Leviev; John Scofield; Alex Blake; Randy and Mike Brecker; Glenn Ferriss; Spectrum; Crosswinds


Jazz

John Klemmer

by Dick Sassaman

page 16

keywords: Touch; saxophonist; Don Ellis; Oliver Nelson; Constant Throb; Waterfall; Fresh Feathers; flutes; echoplex


Some Jazz For December

page 16

keywords: Third Stream; Hugh Masekela; Latent Image; Donald Byrd and the Blackbyrds; Charles Mingus; No Cigar;Lonnie Liston Smith; Tony Williams; John Hammond; Benny Goodman; George Benson; Helen Humes; Bessie Smith; Cecil Taylor; Preservation Hall Jazz Band


Photos

by Levy

page 2


by Fred Prouser

page 5


page 9, page 10

keywords: New Law In Town; rock; soul; Paddock Room








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