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OAR To Feature Former Senator
During Crime Reform 'Teach-In'

By BARBARA BROWNELL

Former U.S. Senator
Joseph D. Tydings of Maryland
will speak at a Crime and
Corrections Reform "teach-in"
at Walker Jr. High School
Friday at 7:30 p.m.

The speech will conclude a
two-day program recognizing
the first anniversary of the
Charlottesville-Albemarle
Offender Aid and Restoration
Program(OAR).

The events preceding Mr.
Tyding's presentation will
begin Thursday a 2 p.m. with a
public tour of the City Jail.

At 3:30 p.m. the
Corrections Film Festival at
Walker Jr. High School will
feature the "Attica
Documentary" a nationally
acclaimed film of the Attica
Prison riot produced by the
American Bar Association
Commission on Correctional
Facilities and Programs.

A prison art show at 7 p.m.
and a Corrections Symposium
at 7:30 p.m. will also he held
in the Walker Jr High School
auditorium. The symposium,
to be moderated by Law
School Dean Monrad Paulsen,
will include a panel of experts
who will discuss "Guidelines
for the Future" in prison
facilities.

Panel Members

Panel members include
James Howard, superintendent
of correctional field units for
Virginia; David Thelen, staff
counsel of Virginia's ACLU:
Charlottesville City Attorney
John Camblos, Michele Bowlin,
chairman of "Exodus," a
Richmond-based ex-offender
organization; James Smith,
inmate at State Farm Prison;
and Judge Kenneth E. Love,
Richland County magistrate
from Columbia, S.C.

Testimonials

Five men from
Southampton Correctional
Farm and four women from
Women's State Farm in
Goochland will participate in a
program of personal
testimonials on Friday at 3:30
p.m. in the Walker auditorium.
After Mr. Tydings' evening
address, a prison inmate finale
will be provided by the "Soul
Tones Review."

Mr. Tydings served in the
Senate from 1965 through
1971. He was a member of the
Senate Judiciary Committee
and acted as Chairman of the
Judiciary Subcommittee on
Improvements in Judicial
Machinery. During his term,
Mr. Tydings gained nationwide
recognition for his strong
stance on the gun-control issue.

Positive Answers

From 1967 through 1969,
he served on the Section
Council of Criminal Law of the
American Bar Association.

According to John B.
Gordon. OAR chairman, the
Offender Aid and Restoration
Program "offered the local
population some positive
answers to problems
concerning the ever-rising
crime rates."

The two-day community
"teach-in" is expected to alert
the public to the need for
change in the correctional
system, Mr. Gordon said.