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Volume 3, Number 11: December 14 - December 21, 1973

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from December 14 - December 21, 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.


Screenshot of Volume 3, Number 11 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from December 14, 1973

Article Index


Divorce hearings: who's at fault

by Hannah Leavitt

page 1, page 4, page 8

keywords: divorce reform; Rep. David Savitt; separation by mutual consent; alimony; conciliation; Women's Rights Committee; George Gekas


Putting a little light on the Capitol

by Marty Peterson

page 2, page 9

keywords: Capitol grounds; energy crisis; Auditor General Robert P. Casey; Secretary of Property and Supplies Frank C. Hilton; safety; mercury vapor; lighting equipment


Food Policy Conference: starving at Hershey Hotel

by Stan Luxenberg

page 2, page 5, page 9

keywords: National Conference on Food Policy; Tony Dechant; Nixon administration; Governor Shapp; energy crisis; Agriculture Secretary Jim McHale; economic aid; George McGovern; "Food Crisis"; military spending


Temperatures steady in energy crisis

page 2

keywords: thermostats; public buildings; Deputy Secretary of Property and Supplies Charles Adler; Capitol


Elections for sale

by Ralph Nader

page 3

keywords: In the Public Interest; campaign finance reform; Senator James Allen; corporate executives; illegal funds; public financing; debt-ceiling bill; filibusterCongressman Wayne Hays


In defense of a welfare grant increase

by Jim Zimmerman

page 3

keywords: standard of living; poverty; malnutrition; food prices; health costs; SWEEP program; utilities; Governor Shapp; Pennsylvania Legislature


New coffee house opens

page 4

keywords: Seventeenth Step; Boyd Memorial Center; Ed McGovern; American Standard; Leonard Crow Dog; Wounded Knee; Peter Mahoney; VVAW; musicians


Legislature plays deadly games with nursing homes

by Justin Lewis

page 5

keywords: Caley Nursing Home; Washington Hill Nursing Home; fire safety; inspections; Department of Labor and Industry; sprinkler systems; Gov. Shapp; budget; bond issue; low interest loans; federal standards


The truth about the great bayonet heist

page 6

keywords: clergyman; St. Francis statue; protest; anti-war convictions


Air Force skirts

by LNS

page 6

keywords: WAF; dress regulations; attractive legs


Senators try to deny President emergency powers

by LNS

page 6, page 10

keywords: "national emergency"; Senate Committee on the Termination of the National Emergency; Nixon administration; wage-price freeze; postal workers' strike; Roosevelt; Truman; Frank Church; Charles Mathias; trespassing; domestic violence; strikes; military matters; martial law; mass protest


Black political activist tried 3 times for a murder

by LNS

page 7, page 9

keywords: Riverside, Calif.; Gary Lawson; hung juries; murder; conspiracy; Johnathan Cameron; Sunny Collins; racial turmoil


Feuilleton

by Dick Sassaman

page 7, page 10

keywords: Jonathan Livingston Seagull; The Macmillan Company; Richard Bach; Richard Harris; Neil Diamond; J. Power Buzzard; Esquire Dubious Achievement Awards; Jesus Deck; James Kavanaugh; Celebrate the Sun; Harry Langandorf Pelican; A Modern Priest Looks At His Outdated Church


Set aside the election

by LNS

page 8

keywords: Committee To Set Aside Election'72; National Lawyers Guild; Gerald Ford; House Judiciary Committee; hearings; People's Lawsuit; Committee To Re-Elect the President; Richard Nixon; ITT; McDonald's; dairy industry; 25th Amendment; Haldeman; Ehrlichmann


Rare jazz in new albums

by Dick Sassaman

page 11

keywords: Music Review; The Saxophone; Impulse Records: Adolph Sax; New Orleans; Coleman Hawkins; Louis Armstrong; Duke Ellington; Johnny Hodges; Harry Carney; Charlie Parker; Theolonius Monk; Dizzy Gillespie; John Coltrane; Miles Davis; Ornette Coleman; A Decade of Jazz, Volumes 1,2 and 3; Blue Note; Donald Byrd; A New Perspective; Art Blakey; Clifford Brown; Tough Talk; The Crusaders; Something Else; Cannonball Adderly; Cannonball Adderly and Friends; Basic Miles; Nancy Wilson; Lou Rawls


Photos

by Jim Flanagan

page 2, page 6


by Jim White

page 2


Artwork

by Gene Suchma

page 3








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