The Women’s Crusade Against Crime will hold the fifth annual National Town Meeting—The National Crusade RoundUp—October 4-7, 1976, at the new Breckenridge Pavilion Inn, according to an announcement by Mrs. James McClellan and Mrs. Ann Slaughter, Crusade Co-Chairmen.
In announcing the event to representatives of civic and sponsoring organizations, Mrs. McClellan said, “After six years of existence, the Crusade is more than ever convinced . that action by private citizens is at the heart of community crime prevention. We all known that police chiefs, lawyers, judges and corrections officials have their special idea-sharing conferences. We believe it is equally important that citizens who are concerned with crime prevention and crime fighting in their own communities should meet to share ideas and discuss needs in their battle against crime. Citizen involvement is vital to the survival of our communities.”
The National Crusade Round-Up will have as its theme, “Crime Knows No Boundaries.” Representatives of citizen crime-fighting groups from across the nation will attend the four-day conference to hear nationally-known speakers discuss citizen involvement in the areas of crime prevention and cooperation with police, courts, and the corrections systems.
The Medal of Valor award ceremony recognizing police and civilians will take place at 4:00 P.M. on Wednesday as part of the Round-Up Program. The police awards recognize “heroic action beyond the call of normal police duty” and citizen honorees are selected for a “heroic act within lawful conduct and primarily motivated by an instinctive concern for the safety of a police officer or the prevention of a crime.” Speaker at the ceremony will be Col. Edward M. Davis, Los Angeles Chief of Police and president -elect of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
The five-day seminar will conclude with a “last round-up” breakfast at 8:00 a.m. Friday at the Breckenridge Pavilion Inn.
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Col. Edward M. Davis, Chief of Police of Los Angeles and president-elect of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, will be the featured speaker at the Medal of Valor Awards ceremony on Wednesday, October 6, 1976, at 4:00 P.M. in the Breckenridge Pavilion Inn. Photographer not credited.
Originally published in The Paper, October 1976.
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Archival transcription note: Source calls the October4–7 event a four-day conference but later says five-day seminar with Friday breakfast; preserve both, not harmonized.
Original source: SD_Times1976_10.pdf, printed page(s) 1; PDF page(s) 1.
