This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from August 17 - August 24, 1973, had 12 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 Puerto Ricans start to organize
by Stan Luxenberg
page 1, page 2, page 7, page 9
keywords: Puerto Rican Organizing Committee; Luis Vazquez; census; Neighborhood Youth Corps; Catholic Church; self-improvement projects; Santos Ortiz; employment; job examinations; Civil Service Commission; education; bilingual classroom
A Time for Sharing
page 1
keywords: neighborhood carnival; Hbg. Center for Peace and Justuce
4 FBI agents arrested for assaulting Indian lawyers
page 2
keywords: Wounded Knee; Rapid City, South Dakota; Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Offense Comittee; Mark Lane; Luke McKissack; harassment; assault
You too can join Senator Sam's new fan club
by NYNS
page 2
keywords: National Sam Ervin Fan Club; Constitution; Watergate
New guides to choosing your doctor
by Ralph Nader
page 3
keywords: Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Herbert Denenberg; "Shopper's Guide to Hospitals"; "Shopper's Guide to Dentistry; consumer guides; "Shopper's Guide to Lawyers"; physician directory; Health Research Group
Senate testimony confirms US regularly bombed NLF hospitals
by LNS
page 3
keywords: Senate Armed Services Committee; Hague Convention; General Creighton Abrams; U.S. bombing; North Vietnam; Geneva Conventions
Judge backs up prosecution at VVAW trial
by Candy Hamilton/John Kifner
page 3
keywords: Gainesville 8; Judge Winston Arnow; William W. Lemmer; "political assassination squads"; CIA; FBI; Republican National Convention; agent provacateur; Operation Dewey Canyon III; Jack Carrouth
The budget: a hoax for the taxpayers
by K. Leroy Irvis
page 5
keywords: Guest Column; House Majority Leader; Black Legislative Caucus; Republican Party; appropriations bill; "Pyrrhic Victory"; Republican budget; mental health; education; environmental programs; tax reduction
Grand jury reform & tenants rights
by Jim Wiggins
page 6
keywords: Congress: Ted Kennedy; Nixon administration; use immunity; transactional immunity; Joshua Ellberg; contempt citations: Gov. Milton Shapp; landlord-tenant rights; security deposits; K. Leroy Irvis; bills; eviction; Michael A. O'Pake
Farm worker pickets attacked by Teamsters and policemen
reprinted from El Malcriado
page 6, page 8
keywords: United Farm Workers; Fresno, California; court injunctions; unlawful assembly; Cesar Chavez; arrested strikers
Montage
page 7
keywords: Led Zeppelin; robbery; New York; food industry; corporate giants; Kellogg's; General Mills; General Foods; Quaker; Borden; Carnation; National Foods; Campbell's; food shortages; New Populist Action; Pentagon; public relations expenditures; military bands; military aerial teams; IRS; surveillance; extremist views; Young Democrats; impeachment; Richard Nixon
Bombs stop, money doesn't
by Jim Wiggins
page 8
keywords: foreign military assistance bill; South Vietnam; Laos; Nixon administration; poem; Fr. Daniel Berrigan; Auschwitz; Hiroshima; Indochina
Movies
page 9
keywords: Julie Andrews; Mary Poppins; The Sound of Music; Tom Sawyer; Mark Twain; The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing; Burt Reynolds; Paper Moon; Tatum O'Neill; Ryan O'Neill; Scarecrow; Gene Hackman; Al Pacino
Books
compiled by Wendy Gilrain
page 10
keywords: My Impressions of Israel; Gov. Milton J. Shapp; From the Diary of a Snail; Gunter Grass; German elections; World Without End, Amen; Jimmy Breslin; Northern Ireland; Bloodletters and Badmen: A Narrative Encyclopedia of American Criminals From the Pilgrims to the Present; Jay Robert Nash; Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin; Myra Friedman; Dutch Uncle; Marilyn Durham; The Complete Greed; Eric Von Stroheim; Herman G. Weinberg; James Agee
6 initial albums that aren't first offenders
by Dick Sassaman
page 11
keywords: Music Review; Back Door; jazz; Supersax Plays Bird; Cheryl Dilcher; Butterfly; Melanie; Kellee Patterson; Maiden Voyage; Ned Doheny; Jackson Browne; Brian Alexander Robinson; "Wringing Applause"
Artwork
by Toni Truesdale
page 1, page 3
by Gene Suchma
page 3
by Peg Kerr
page 8
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