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Volume 5, Number 8: November 21, 1975 - November 28, 1975

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This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from November 21, 1975 - November 28, 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 8 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from November 21, 1975

Article Index


A Symphony For Aaron Copland

Aaron in Harrisburg, Op. 75

by Richard Sassaman/James R. Wiggins

page 1, page 8, page 16

keywords: Aaron in Harrisburg; The Harrisburg Independent Press Orchestra; Pulitzer Prize; Charles Ives; Presidential Medal of Freedom; Symphony for Organ and Orchestra; Paris; Music For the Theater; El Salon Mexico; Mayor Harold Swenson; Harrisburg Symphony; David Epstein; Columbia Records; London Symphony Orchestra; Appalachian Spring; Rodeo and Billy the Kid; Copland On Music; folk music; Leonard Bernstein; D. Harold Jauss; Penn Harris Motor Inn; birthday party; jazz; creativity


Breaking up the bank-insurance complex

by Jim Wiggins

page 2, page 8

keywords: anti-trust laws; banks; insurance companies; loan market; Bank of America; Prudential Life; interlocking directorates; Clayton Anti-Trust Act; Justice Department; R. Wesley Shope; Mutual Life Insurance Co.; Commonwealth National Bank; credit; mortgages; Dauphin Deposit Trust; Millers Mutual Insurance Company; Robert M. Mumma; municipal bonds; major industries


Profits of processors marks food inflation

page 2, page 14

keywords: food processors; U.S. Department of Agriculture; sugar; Alexander & Baldwin; Amstar; Oscar Mayer; Del Monte; Pillsbury; Esmark; inflation; Business Week; American Bakeries; A.E. Staley; Tasty Baking


Serendipity is a small business

by Christine Biringer

page 2, page 15

keywords: small store owners; Bill Hobbie; The Medina; David Fisher; Gnu Leathers; Kauffman's Coffee, Teas & Spices; Charlee Kauffman; antiques; leatherworking; Historic Harrisburg Association; Lemoyne Market; aesthetic value; belts; wallets; coffee; longer hours


To televise Congress

by Ralph Nader

page 3

keywords: Consumer Protection Bill; Congressman Pete McCloskey; consumer advocacy; congressional debates; John Erlenborn; health; safety; John Wydler; House of Representatives; GM; Ford; Proctor & Gamble; Greyhound; Sears; Gerald Ford; lobbyists; H. Ross Perot; Christopher Dodd; Don Fuqua; veto


Montage

page 3

keywords: giant turtle; extinct species; Colorado; Senator Gary Hart; Boy Scouts; Girl Scouts; camping; nerve gas arsenal; Army; bad publicity; Springfield, Missouri; heaven; Johnnie Hope; Bible City; Jesus; Jonah; Disneyland; Garden of Eden; Beverly Hilton; Los Angeles; Rabbi Baruch Korff; Richard M. Nixon; Sen. George McGovern; ABC-TV; Republican National Convention; Sen. Barry Goldwater; Democratic convention; Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination; Karen Cantwell; sandwiches; secretary; Jacwill Casket Company; red, white and blue; caskets; "The Spirit of 76"; Indiana; merchandising; Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott; Arlen Specter; George Packard; Rep. John Heinz; Rep. Bud Shuster; Jack Ford; marijuana; Bianca Jagger; John Denver; Paul Kantner; Jefferson Starship


Letters To the Editor

page 4

keywords: Lincoln; Richard Hower; Romans; Susquehanna Valley; Abyssinians; King Zoscales; Emporer Wazeb; Henry Octagon; Casmas; Metropolitan Community Church; Richard Kaplan; Gary M. Hite; thanks; Susquehannock Arear Indian Center; Six Nations; Tehanatoems; White Water; Wampum Belts; dollar; Great Spirit; Jimmy Little Turtle


A city inspector talks about housing

by Samuel D. Kolarac

page 4, page 14

keywords: Community Forum; Housing Inspector; editorial; rehabilitation; demolition; FHA; VA; mortgage company; housing inspection complaints; health; safety; sanitation complaints; District Justice; Buyer Notification Ordinance


Uranium shortage may scuttle nuclear industry

by John Saunders/PNS

page 5

keywords: nuclear power industry; geologist; C.R. Lattanzi; spent reactor fuel; plutonium; uranium enrichment; U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; private enterprise; Westinghouse; Anaconda Uranium Corp.; General Atomic Co.; Delmarva Power and Light Co.; nuclear power plants; Lawrence Laboratories


Pennsylvania utilities say there's no real shortgage

page 5

keywords: Pennsylvania Electric Association; Dick Hyde; recycling; plutonium; Pennsylvania Power and Light; Paul Schock; solar; breeder reactors; fusion power; Berwick; utilities; fuel adjustment clause; PUC


Harrington faces censure for revealing the truth

by Ramsey Clark, John Kenneth Galbraith, Jerome Grossman, John Hersey, Shirley MacClaine, I.F. Stone, George Wald

page 6

keywords: Harrington Committee; CIA; Chile; Allende government; Representative Michael Harrington; CIA Director Richard Helms; House Armed Services Committee; clandestine operations; Vietnam; Congressional "oversight"; gun control


Continued, Scott Camil & undercover police

by Jim Zimmerman

page 6

keywords: Vietnam Veterans Against the War; conspiracy; Jack Carrouth; Drug Enforcement Administration; marijuana; cocaine; assault; informer; Barbara Ives Davis; Republican National Convention; grand jury; State Attorney Eugene T. Whitworth; burglaries; Dennis Fitzgerald


How to improve your relationship with plants

by Cindy Leitzel

page 7

keywords: greenery; plant shops; books; philadendrons; cacti; African violets; temperature; humidity; sphagnum; peat moss; moisture; feeding


A religious sect is fleeing the city

Predict racial strife in Harrisburg

page 7

keywords: divine revelations; Church of the Divine Birth; Cheryl Walker; racial turmoil; urban centers; black population; Gallery Doshi; pre-school program


Local Notes

by Skinny Lucy

page 9

keywords: Janis Ian; Arlo Guthrie; Edgar Winter; Chicago; The Who; The Allman Brothers


Suggestions for a meatless Thanksgiving

page 13

keywords: turkey; pumpkins; eggplants; green peppers; squash; oysters; Brazil nut stuffing; almond stuffing; yam stuffing; apple stuffing; apricot stuffing


Consumerscope

New contraceptive due, Facts on federal waste

page 13

keywords: Progestasert; birth control pill; IUD; uterus; federal consumer agency; veto; Preisdent Ford; airlines; prices; domestic flights; Civil Aeronautics Board; federal government; frisbees; tricycles; Polish acorns; U.S. Botanic Gardens; federal waste; Donald Lambro; "The Federal Rathole"


The final football poll

Cougars clinch top spot

by J. Morris

page 14

keywords: Harrisburg High; Terry Plummer; Central Dauphin; York; Lancaster; Middletown; Carlisle; quality of competition; rank


Music A symphonic hoe-down at the Forum

by Becky Baum

page 16

keywords: Review; Aaron Copland; Harrisburg Symphony; Dance Symphony; woodwinds; Orchestral Variations; Appalachian Spring; Rodeo; Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo; folk songs; Buckaroo Holiday; birthday celebration; Dr. David Epstein; WITF-FM; symphony conductor


Photos

by Fred Prouser

page 1, page 2, page 8, page 15, page 16


page 9, page 10

keywords: Dave Schall; Alan England; Gary Lumpkin; Harrisburg Community Theater; "The Pursuit of Happiness"


Artwork

by R. Cobb/LA Free Press

page 5








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