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
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Los Angeles A "Festival of
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guest conductor of the Los An
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Aug. 18. Each evening will pre
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to the jazz and Central and
South America will be repre
sented along with North
America.
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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
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Members of the Central Point
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Jacksonville Presbyterian
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AT OEA Session
William E. 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
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and Gardner Knapp, president of
the Oregon School Board's asso
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Many Delegates
Attend Session
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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-
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Brownsboro, Miss Eula Winter
mote, county home extension
agent; and Mrs. Charles Moore
of Rogue River.
Dr. Elmo Stevenson, president
of Southern Oregon college, was
the main speaker. His subject
was "Learning To Live To
gether." Mrs. Florence N
Brinks, Oregon "Mother of the
Year," was a guest at the ban
quet and spoke to the group.
Miss Madge Reese, represent
ing the department of agricul
ture, attended the session. She
will retire this year after 30
years of service. Total registra
tion at the meeting was 213
members, who came from all
sections of the state. Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Sager showed pic
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