Volume 5, Number 12: December 19, 1975 - January 2, 1976

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from December 19, 1975 - January 2, 1976, 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

FBI has secret communications tower on Blue Mountain

Why is the FBI on the mountain?

Land and facilities owned by WHP-TV

by William Keisling

page 1, pages 8-10

keywords: Darlington Trail; "Rode's Antenna Farm"; WHP; John Dean; Joseph Higgins; General Manager; WITF; Patrick Philbin; radio communications; Dr. Lawrence Robert Pineiro; Stanford Research Institute; microwaves; mind reading

What price city redevelopment?

by Christopher Sayer

page 2, page 17

keywords: Harrisburg Redevelopment Authority; Mumma mansion; Susquehanna River Basin Commission; City Council; Paul E. Doutrich, Jr.; Ludlow Fair; Lombardo's Restaurant; Louis Milan; Pete Carlucci; architectural review board

State may scuttle prison work release

At Camp Hill Correctional facility

by Jim Zimmerman

page 2, page 17

keywords: Community Related Center; Tony Petruccio; Governor's Justice Commission; counsellors; sentencing judge; John Dworek; Jerry Dugan

Steal this car

by Ralph Nader

page 3

keywords: In the Public Interest; Ford Motor Company; FBI reports; steering column ignition; warning systems; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; locking systems; Department of Transportation; Department of Justice

Montage

page 3

keywords: Otto Kerner; prison reform; federal judge; Governor of Illinois; CBS; "The Selling of the Pentagon"; documentary; Charles Colson; Frank Stanton; White House; "Changing Attitudes of American Catholics Toward the Liturgy, A National Survey 1974"; National Opinion Research Center; contraception; divorce; Pope; MedEd; Three Mile Island; outdoor Christmas lighting; Woody Allen; sexual behavior; glider pilots; Mount Fuji; Japan; Pacific Ocean; "jet stream"; Sen. Hugh Scott; nuclear accident; Price-Anderson Act; House of Representatives; damages; University of Utah; psychologist; American child; televised violence

Community Insider

State budget grab

by Larry E. Arnold

page 4

keywords: General Assembly; legislator expense increase; "Bicentennial Legislative Session"; Senator Robert Myers; Legislature; Merry Christmas

Capitol Insider

by Jim Wiggins

page 4

keywords: Michael Baker; Gov. Milton Shapp; State Rep. Charles Laughlin; Jacob Kassab; PemmDOT; U.S. Attorney Richard Thornburgh; Democratic Party; Auditor General Robert Casey; William Lentz; Larry Hochendoner; Earl Hoffman; George Gekas; Stanley Miller; Mayor Harold Swenson; Sen. Franklin Kury; Tony Petrucci; D.A. Leroy Zimmerman; Rep. Herman Schneebeli; Rep. Joseph Hepford; Marilyn Kanenson; Corky Goldstein; Pete Flaherty; Bill Green; Jeanette Riebman; Arlen Specter; John Heinz; Rep. Joseph Rhodes; Frank Rizzo; Drew Lewis; Gov. William Scranton

The issue in the mines is the right to strike

by Dennis Boyer

page 5

keywords: United Mine Workers; Arnold Miller; W.A. Boyle; Miners for Democracy; John Woods; Progressive Labor Party; Derek Pearl; wildcat strikes; Ku Klux Klan; mine safety; black lung disease; racism; U.S. Steel; Rhodesia; south Africa; "Miner's Report"

Is there democracy in the Democratic Party?

by Jim Wiggins

page 6

keywords: Dauphin County Democratic Committee; Larry Shaffner; county chairman; Rep. Stephen Reed; Joe O'Conner; voice vote; secret ballot; state bylaws

Go see the art show

Ashcan Gallery

by Gary Shellehamer

page 6

keywords: wood block prints; Pregnant Mermaid; Williams; Ament; Teeth and Tongue; Fishel; Truesdale; Bissett; 1000 and 1 New Arabian Shoe Stories; Black artists; paintings; Mr. Cool Has Hair and Wrinkles On His Chest

Krevsky loses challenge, Democrats are seated on new school board

by John Serbell

page 6

keywords: Fannie Krevsky; Jack Staley; Clarice Chambers; George Zoozos; Common Pleas Court; John Connolly; Jean Tamanini; Harrisburg school director; Carroll Purdy; ballots

Closing the Gap

page 7

keywords: barracks housing; Vietnamese refugees; Indiantown Gap; racism; Central Pennsylvania

Local Notes

by Skinny Lucy

page 11

keywords: Jazz Hotline; Concert Line; Uncle Remus; Coventry; Free Flight; Latent Image; Free and Easy; Squire; Chatvelles; Hank Imhoff; Everyday People; Crystal; Country Ramblers; Third Stream; Ron Hamen; Ben Barber; American Standard; Steamed Clams; Elmer J. Fudd; Ed Wambach; Randy Landau; Bruce Springsteen

Consumerscope

Corporate tax declines; Chemicals in your beer

by LNS

page 14

keywords: Ford Motod Company; federal income taxes; American Electric Power; Allstate Insurance; U.S. Industries; Honeywell; Lockheed; American Airlines; Eastern Airlines; Food and Drug Administration; beer; wine; liquor; ingredients; Center for Science in the Public Interest

Start a cookie tradition

page 16

keywords: Christmas presents; cream cheese cookies; almond cookies; butter cookies; Christmas spice cookies; molasses cookies; walnut butter delights; fruit cookies

Movies 92 in the Shade

by John Serbell

page 18

keywords: Review; Thomas McGuane; Eric Twin Cinemas; East Four Cinemas; book; Rancho Deluxe; Marlon Brando; Jack Nicholson; Warren Oates; Key West; Peter Fonda; El;izabeth Ashley; Margot Kidder; Sylvia Miles; Burgess Meredith; Harry Dean Stanton

The Harder They Come

by Jim Zimmerman

page 19

keywords: reggae music; Jimmy Cliff; The Wailers; Jamaican artists; Elgin Theater; Perry Henzell; Kingston; music; ganga; Rhygin; Rastafarians; African rhythms; review; The Maytalls; subtitles; English folk music; marijuana

Theater Was He Anyone?

by Jim Wiggins

page 19

keywords: Review; HACC; Lehrman Arts Center; Workshop 98; playwright N.F. Simpson; Albert Whitbrace; National Help You Out Year Week; Leningrad Symphony; Dan Book; Lisa Peterson; Richard Olsen;

The Music of 1975

Records of the Year

by Dick Sassaman

page 1, page 19

keywords: Jimmy Buffett; Janis Ian; Michael Murphey; Jeff beck; Bruce Springsteen; Stan Getz; Stanley Clarke; Jesse Colter; Joan Baez; Lewis Furey; John Coltrane; Sam Rivers; Kokomo; The Modern Jazz Quartet; The Manhattan Transfer; Doc Watson; Travis Wammack; Cat Stevens; Earth, Wind and Fire; Rahsaan Roland Kirk; Bob Dylan and the Band; Thelonoius Monk; The Who; The Cleveland Orchestra; A Chorus Line; Jimi Hendrix; Grachan Moncur III; Gentle Giant; Daryl Hall and John Oates; The Wailers; Andrew Hill; Frank Zappa; Chick Corea; Emmy Lou Harris; Jefferson Starship; Quicksilver Messenger Service; Can; McCoy Tyner; Loudon Wainwright III; Del Shannon

The Music of 1975

Four of the Best Records of the 1970s

by Dick Sassaman

page 1, page 19, page 20

keywords: Blood On the Tracks; Bob Dylan; Rolling Thunder Revue; O.J. Simpson; Pete Hammill; Midnight On the Water; David Bromberg; Irish tunes; Peter Ecklund; fiddle; pennywhistle; Dream; The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band; John McEuen; Jeff Hanna; Jimmy Fadden; Jim Ibbotson; Will the Circle Be Unbroken; Wolf Creek Pass; C.W. McCall; Bill Fries; Chip Davis

The Music of 1975

Musicians of the Year

by Dick Sassaman

page 1, page 19

keywords: Jimmy Buffett; Aaron Copland; Chick Corea; Earth, Wind & Fire; Bruce Springsteen; Third Stream; Indiantown Gap

The Movies of 1975

by Dick Sassaman

page 1, page 20

keywords: The Godfather Part II; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Phantom of the Paradise; The Clowns; Scenes From a Marriage; And Now For Something Completely Different; Jaws; Blue Water, White Death; Hearts and Minds; King of Hearts; Harold ans Maude; Chinatown; Alice Doesn't Live Here Anyone; Young Frankenstein; The Day of the Locust; Woman Under the Influence; The Harder They Come

The Movies of 1975

Coming - The Christmas Films

by Dick Sassaman

page 1, page 20

keywords: The Black Bird; George Segal; Dog Day Afternoon; Al Pacino; Sidney Lumet; The Hindenburg; George C. Scott; Anne Bancroft; Hustle; Burt Reynolds; Catherine Deneuve; Ernest Borgnine; Robert Aldrich; The Killer Elite; Sam Peckinpah; Robert Duvall; James Caan; Lucky Lady; Gene Hackman; Burt Reynolds; Liza Minnelli; The Man Who Would Be King; John Huston; Sean Connery; Michael Caine; Rudyard Kipling; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Jaime: Our Top Guest

page 20

keywords: Jaime Brockett; Capitol Campus; Cellar Door; Green Beret Blues

Photos

by Fred Prouser

page 2, page 7, page 10

page 11, page 12

keywords: William Penn Memorial Museum; Hall of Anthropology; Indiam culture

by John Serbell

page 20

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