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Volume 5, Number 5: October 31, 1975 - November 7, 1975

Updated: Dec 29, 2025

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from October 31, 1975 - November 7, 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.


Screenshot of Volume 5, Number 5 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from October 31, 1975

Article Index


The HIP Election Survey

County Commissioner

page 1, page 8, page 9

keywords: property reassessment; taxation; Cole Layer and Trumble; fraud; big business; small homeowners; Dauphin County; Hershey Estates; Earl Hoffman; Gerald Leib; Office of Assessments; Human Services; domestic relations; child care; mental health; juvenile detention; drug and alcohol abuse; Earl Reider; Harry Reese; patronage job; Hershey Foods


The HIP Election Survey

County Treasurer

page 1, page 9

keywords: dog, cat, hunting and fishing licenses; Marilyn Kanenson; independent audit; tax collector; Daniel Seiverling; county finances; Controller Oscar Lingle; Dauphin County Mental Health/Mental Retardation; Hershey National Bank; lottery system


The HIP Election Survey

Sheriff

page 1, page 10

keywords: prisoners; courts; civil work; mortgage foreclosures; divorce; William Livingston; women deputies; local police departments; dum-dum bullets; Joseph Sweigart; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; county wide laboratory; regionalization


The HIP Election Survey

District Justice

page 1, page 10

keywords: criminal justice system; arraignment; preliminary hearings; misdemeanor cases; civil cases; Hill; downtown Harrisburg; Stanley H. Grimwood; bail; juvenile detention center; political campaign; Joseph S. Pinamonti, Jr.; curfew; littering; housing; landlord; Buyer Notification Ordinance; housing code violations; discrimination


The HIP Election Survey

City Treasurer

page 1, page 10, page 11

keywords: Joseph Bihl; Richard Simons; banks; mortgage patterns; Community Development Act; investments; Dauphin Deposit Bank; Harristown; home improvement loans; insurance broker; salaries


The HIP Election Survey

School Board

page 1, page 11

keywords: Harrisburg School District; racial imbalance; John Frye; Fannie Krevsky; disciplinary code; Clarice Chambers; John Waters; Jack Staley; George Zozos; academic standards; budget; Student Bill of Rights; school newspapers; community involvement; community grade schools; per-capita tax; basic education; absenteeism; drop-out rate; student representatives; life-skills courses; Dauphin County Board of Assistance; busing; corporal punishment; Community Action Program; vandalism


The HIP Election Survey

City Council

page 1, page 11, page 13, page 14, page 15

keywords: Roberta Brower; Wendell Banks; community forums; U.S. Labor Party; heroin trade; debt payments; Uptown area; Harristown; taxes; budget; Community Development Area; "red-lining"; Marianne Faust; Historic Harrisburg Association; Common Cause; Community Development Forum; housing; deserted properties; neighborhood centers; affirmative action; public hearings; City Planning Bureau; Leroy Robinson Jr.; Harrisburg Parking Authority; Hamilton Health Center; Neighborhood Day Care Center; Equal Opportunity laws; Bell Telephone companies; Richard Stabinski; Harrisburg Democratic Committee; city contracts; single-member districts; Stanley R. Lawson; Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission; NAACP; jobs; ethics code; Robert P. Hawley; teacher; Jack R. Karper; Tax Rconomy League; federal and state monies; flood control


The HIP Election Survey

Superior Court

page 1, page 15

keywords: Edmund B. Spaeth; Governor Shapp; Appellate Court Nominating Commission; constitutional rights; Pennsylvania Bar Association; Pennsylvania AFL-CIO; Silvestri Silvestri; U.S. Steel; Pittsburgh; air pollution; Walter T. McGough; Judge Ellenbogen; disqualification hearing; Allegheny Bar Association


This year's guide to the costs of fuel oil

by Christine Biringer

page 1, page 2, page 6

keywords: HIP consumer; heating oil distributors; annual service contract; prices; Fuel Emergency Center; Dauphin County Board of Assistance; last years'prices


The Camp Hill hearings:

Can we bear to know the truth

by Jim Wiggins

page 2, page 6

keywords: Camp Hill Prison; Attorney General Robert Kane; Nazi Concentration Camps; teenage prisoners; Rep. David Richardson; Charles Hammock; maximum security; "Behavior Adjustment Unit"; brutality; Joey Snyder; Robert Tyler; Judge William Lipsitt; guards; AFSCME; Richard Kirshner; Jerome Miller; Camp Hill Project; Gov. Shapp; James Burgh; Sgt. Brenner; Sgt. Stotelmyer; Mr. Ross; Mr. Forker


Jerry Ford's golf chums

by Ralph Nader

page 3

keywords: consumer protection agency; veto; Gerald Ford; bureaucracy; drugs; food; autos; Montgomery Ward; Polaroid; General Motors; Proctor and Gamble; oil industries; state government; California; New Jersey


Montage

page 3

keywords: Soochow's; China; cats; embroidery; FBI; limericks; Communist Party; Socialist Workers Party; leftist groups; F. Lee Bailey; Patricia Hearst; freedom; justice; flowerhood; Dr. J.M. Peit; European Institute of Ecology; chemical warfare; plants; Environmental Protection Agency; smog; air pollution; Russell Train; bean yields; tomato crops; Odell Chadwell; hog farm; monkey; Caesar Chavez; federal government; bureaucratic paperwork; FBI; Groucho Marx; Richard Nixon; Oklahoma legislature; maiden name; state supreme court; global village; malnutrition; substandard housing; Smithsonian Institution; hunger; Wisconsin; Liberty Bell; cheese; limerick; FBI


As I see it

by Ted Ross

page 4

keywords: Jefferson; newspapers; bonds; Harristown; Steve Reed; Federal Community Development funds; Phil Kalodner; Herb Denenverg; Pennsylvania Power & Light; evaluation; Fred R. Harris; Warren Commission; Warden Davis; City Council; Albert Schmidt; Crawford Murdoch; medical costs; automobile deaths; alcohol; Volkswagen


Sports The Football Poll

by J. Morris

page 4

keywords: Cedar Cliff; Harrisburg; State College High School; York; Williamsport; Neil Hickoff; Red Land; Middletown; head coach


A guide to the bikeways of Southcentral Penna.

page 4

keywords: bicycling; "Detailed Route Guide"; Harrisburg Bikeway; Lancaster; Gettysburg; Pine Grove State Park; Codorus; Hershey; Carlisle; motor vehicle traffic; mountain laurel; Upper Allen; Lower Paxton; safety; maintenance; bike shops; Department of Community Affairs


How to start your very own flying saucer cult

by Richard Hower

page 5

keywords: outer space; UFOs; Flying Saucer Salvation Cults; alien; suacer; spiel; dogs; Rudy; transcendental meditation; armadillo; "Creature from Lake Erie"; Osgood L. Buzzard; Tyranosaurus Rex; Cleveland; Japanese cult; "Redeemer from Beta Centaur"; "First Church of the Flying Saucer"; Pastor Norbi Trefferon


Ain't gonna study war no more

Peace consciousness at HACC

by Rich Leiby

page 6

keywords: Harrisburg Area Community College; United Nations Day; Sudent for Peace Association; Betty Sue Lentz; Womens' International League for Peace and Freedom; Mayor Howard Swenson; Ron Pagnucco; world citizenship; Human Rights; Women's International Day; "Introduction to Peace"; celebration


Local Notes

by Skinny Luke

page 7

keywords: Third Stream; Moon; Skyline; Free & Easy; Racey; White Rose; Early Spring; Emplosion; Nebula; Green Street; Wolfganag; Craig Kendig; Craig Stouffer; American Standard; Steemed Clams; Hot Ice; Ed Wambach; Randy Landau; Stephen Stills; Flo and Eddie; Janis Ian; Edgar Winter; Chicago; The Who; Dave Mason; The Allman Brothers Band; The Beach Boys; Tower of Power; Sky King


The wonderful October world of pumpkins

page 19

keywords: pumpkin pies; freezing; canning; drying; pulp; winter squash; seeds; garlic; paprika; pumpkin cake; pumpkin bread; pudding; pumpkin cookies


CONSUMERSCOPE

In case you didn't know, Ho-Jo's is a ripoff

page 19

keywords: Environmental Protection Agency; fuel efficiency; Chevrolet Chevette; Ford Pinto; Datsun B-210; Renault; Subaru; Ford Thunderbird; Lincoln Continental; food additives; National Association of Broadcasters; advertising; children; Howard Johnson Co.; Pennsylvania Turnpike; gas stations; guidebook


Phil DeAngelis

Third Stream's New Guitarist

by Dick Sassaman

page 20

keywords: twelve-string guitar; drums; jazz; rock; The Paddock; Dante's Downstairs; Back Room; keyboard player; Rick Kline; Jim Miller; Tom Strohman; Bruce Whitcomb


Photos

by Andy Jablon

page 2


page 7, page 16

keywords: Tower of Power; Franklin and Marshall College; Sky King


by Dick Sassaman

page 20








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