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Frienclly Visitors Bring ABout Many Prison Routine Changes Br ELIZABETH TOOMEY United PrtM Correspondent New York (U.R) Well dressed, attractive women walk into the women's prison in the heart of Manhattan frequently these days to pay some revolu tionary social calls. Since they first entered the forbidding; seven-story brick building a year ago and waited in the lobby encircled with iron bars, these women have made possible more changes in prison routine than have any city laws in the past decade. The women are housewives and a few professional women who call themselves .- "The Friendly ' Visitors." The first four, who answered a plea from Anna M. Kross, the city's first woman commissioner of prisons, brought in 40 more. They must be "good listeners, not do-gooders," Alice R. Burke, a pretty woman lawyer from Virginia who is the prison's new director of programming, ex plained. Only a few of the nearly 50 women now active call regularly on the girls in prison. The others work behind scenes. The Purpose "The purpose of our friendly visitors is to make these girls realize there is someone who really is interested in them,'4 Miss Burke said. "We want the person who can sit quietly and listen and inspire confidence. They discovered early that the girls responded better if the friendly visitors also were rea sonably attractive and smartly dressed "These are girls off the city streets, Dr. Rose Franzblau, a psychologist who works with the "Friendly Visitors," explained "They think they're pretty sophisticated, and they imme Ciately resist advice from a woman they recognize as badly dressed. The prison houses girls for as long as three years, although it originally was built as a deten tion prison for woman awaiting trial. It is wedged in between city streets in Greenwich Vil lage with no yard. The roof is the only recreation area. "We played our role by ear at firs t," Franzblau explained. "We didn't know where to be gin." Listened To Girls They discovered, from listen ing to the girls, that one of the first things that concerned them was their appearance and what they would wear when they left the prison. City law requires ; only that the prison provide the prisoner with 25 cents when he leaves. The woman volunteers can vassed dry cleaning establish ments until they found one with hundreds of garments never called for. They bought them, "three garments for a dollar." Now the wardrobe department has grown until it is a neatly catalouged "store" with com plete outfits in all sizes. They got extra sewing ma chines for the prison so the girls could fit their prison uniforms and learn to makes clothes for themselves. Other women's organizations heard about the work and began to help. The Lucy Stoner league recently donated a new library, including two volumes of "Power of positive Thinking," by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. Popular Book "That book became so popular we finally called Dr. Peale and asked if some of his church women might donate some more copies," one of the friendly vis itors said. "They sent eight more. We have to be careful or the girls cut out whole pages they like and keep tHem." A former nutritionist with the Red Cross is teaching girls how to prepare and serve food; hus bands of the volunteers are rais ing money to outfit a beauty shop in the prison where girls also can learn to be beauty op erators; typewriters are being installed so girls might learn to be office typists. Once the girls are released, they can continue to receive vis its from the volunteer workers until they get back on their feeU Festival of Americas To Be Presented in Los Angeles This Year Los Angeles A "Festival of the Americas" is planned for the Hollywood Bowl in Los 'Angeles this summer. Leonard Bernstein will be festival director and guest conductor of the Los An geles Philharmonic in a five day series of concerts beginning Aug. 18. Each evening will pre sent a different aspect of Amer ican music, from the symphonic to the jazz and Central and South America will be repre sented along with North America. Picnic Thursday A joint picnic and program for Women's circles of the Cen: tral Point and Jacksonville Presbyterian church is planned for Thursday, June 14 at 1 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Wynn Ar nold. 1 Members of the Central Point circle are asked to meet at the Jacksonville Presbyterian church to be guided to the Ar nold home. Dad Deserves A Gift! Brainerd's will help you (Medford's Leading Camera Shop) O A camera? O A gadget bag? O A projector? O A screen? OA light meter? O A tripod? O A flash attachment?" O Darkroom supplies? O Film? It Does Not Have To Be Expensive To . 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Ruck, Medford, represented Jackson countyunit, Oregon Education association, at a workshop meeting of coun ty unit officers of OEA in Port land Friday and Saturday. Some 25 speakers presented various phases of the work of the statewide association num bering over 12,000 Oregon edu cators. Several discussion per iods allowed participants to assess the work of the organiza tion in order to make an appli cation of its program to their counties. The group recessed from 10:30 to 12:15 a.m. Satur day to view the Rose Festival parade. Congresswoman Edith Green, former OEA public relations di rector,, was featured in a talk to the group at a special dinner at the Mallory hotel at 6:30 p.m. Friday. Other remarks were by Miss Margaret Perry, winner of the 1955 McCall's magazine "teacher of the year" award; Mrs. Clyde Gideon, state legisla tive chairman of the Oregon Con gress of Parents and Teachers, and Gardner Knapp, president of the Oregon School Board's asso ciation, who talked on "Educa tion Problems from the School Board Point of View." Many Delegates Attend Session Of State Council A large delegation of Jackson county women atteded the 23rd annual meeting of the Oregon Home Economics Extension council held recently at Oregon State college at Corvallis, it is reported last week by Mrs. L.M. Charley, District 5 director for the council. From this area were Mrs. Ira Burns, Medford, Mrs. Milo O'Harra, Ashland, Mrs. Ralph Lane, Shady Cove, Mrs. Arnold Gosnell, Sams Valley, Mrs. A.T. Lathrop and Mrs. Arnold Bohn- ert, Central Point, Mrs. Ed Mey er and Mrs. Leland M. Charley; Brownsboro, Miss Eula Winter mote, county home extension agent; and Mrs. Charles Moore of Rogue River. 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