1669-2 Social, Society,& Local News 1946-1993 w
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nlless Migrants recreatiufi.pfehouse'here'-'SW
cots formerly housed visiting
" \ g servicemen: ,
Descending "I just don't know what we're
On Beach going to do i( the beds become
unavailable to us," she said,
':'` .. worriedly.
`t/`.Zr �PAULA CLARK t..................„./.-
/ The welfare board at Miami
r:.'! Harald Staff Writer Beach operates on a $300,000
;MERICA'S "displaced populations" areannual budget. It's going to be
• • apparently converg• stretched beyond the breaking
'ling on MIami Beach. Mrs. Elizabeth C. point if the hordes of penniless
Sec•retary of the Miami Beach Welfare board,I fears that [the from sheve t rwintry North descend
Ifderal government eventually will have to help the city look I —`
afteri,the new crop of penniless migrants.
The hegira of ailing and aged ® _
to; the swank winter _resort Typical Is the case-of the assn-
ons
etar\ed with the lifting of gaso-
mauc from Hartford, iBhHfeI 'T '
line'rationing, Mrs. King said I
soldall his household Conn.,who. f
Saturday, and headed for Denverdwi[hlhls • Lepe Ref ,'^
wife and twolyof asfn, ✓ PQ��
We have never had so many The family got as far as ��yy
,transients. appeal to us for aid . land, Where Cleve- Z /
thle early in the season," Mrs • worker re a •Travelers' Alm The Helen-Mar apartment /
41r11 clared. "We handled 125 '- Ige in critical holm-The hotel is Pancoast lake at 24th
c�ae�r¢uring October and our re- int shortage it Denver. The leased Miami Beach, has been
PipgZ.' `,{or November will show a , asthma sufferer cashed in his i for 25 years for. ;1,-
er,cent increase, I believe ' heatward-bound tickets •and 250,000 by a northern hotel .
we're;going to require federal ! headed when theyg r Miami Beach. corporation, it was announced
aid,as We did during the depres- got here," Mrs. last night
shoo, to handle them." King reported, "they paid 535 The apartment hotel, owned '
Most of the penniless visitors for a week's lodging and then 'by Mrs. Helen Maupal, is Be-
are lured south by the hope that came to us." ing reconditioned for opening;
winter sunshine will cure them ' * *t
0'slip their aliments. * for the season. It was used i•
by the army as quarters for
r =:L4 r THERE'S a 72-year-old mother . families'of officers stationed'
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