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University Daily Kansan, January 19, 1983
Ranks of poor hope for help across nation
By United Press International
Hundreds of jobless men and women shivered overnight in 9- degree weather in Milwaukee yesterday, drawn by an advertisement for the hiring of 200 workers. An unruly crowd fought to grab surplus cheese and butter in Milwaukee.
The homeless were sleeping in makeshift cardboard houses in New York City's Bronx, in tents in Phoenix, and in an elegant cathedral in San Francisco.
These and other tales of the unemployed and down-and-out have been in the news as the flesh and blood counterparts to January statistics continue to strain charitable organizations from coast to coast.
The A.O. Smith Corp., a Milwaukee
auto frame company, overwhelmed by about 20,000 people applying for 200 jobs Monday, opened its doors a half hour early yesterday to give warm sanctuary to about 2,000 more who lined up overnight, hudding and bundling around trash can fires.
"Why? Hope." he said. "That is all I can say. It is hope. They want a job and I want a job."
MICHAEL LOVE, Milwaukee, said there was only one explanation for that kind of perseverance.
In Vancouver, Wash., distribution of federal surplus cheese and butter had to be temporarily halted Monday because of pushing and shoving mobs.
An angry Salvation Army commander said that he had to back up four fights and that the Salvation Army would get out of the distribution
"We have been pushed to the limit by the food distribution program for the past eight or nine months." Capt. Cal Proudty said, "I cannot instruct my staff and volunteers and our neighbors...to any more such abuse."
program when the current supply was gone.
CHURCHES WERE, opening their doors to the desperate. Hope Lutheran Church in Detroit was opening its doors as a shelter for homeless men.
About 100 San Francisco homeless were sleeping on cots and mats beneath the stairs.
The Episcopal shelter, in the midst of Nob Hill's glittering opulence, was staffed by Junior League volunteers as well as cathedral employees.
The Rev William Barcus said, about 30 percent are the nouveau
members.
New York City's Human Resources Administration spokesman Jack Deacy said 4,010 men and 450 women were on the job Monday night at the city's 11 shelters.
who have begun living on the street in the last year."
DEACY SAID about 30 churches and synagogues housed 300 to 400 people a night. Non-profit private shelters put up another 600.
Robert Hayes, an attorney for the Coalition for the Homeless said others "were living in the streets, abandoned buildings, subways, train stations, bus depots, loading docks and piers on the East and Hudson rivers."
"In the south Bronx, there are small huts that people have built individually. We're not far from the Hovervilles north of Central Park 50 years ago, where
hundreds of people are living in tents and shacks in a shanty town, be said.
A tent city in a state park 35 miles outside Houston was thinning a bit as word began to spread that the area offered no more job opportunities than
About 45 jobs were living under a freeway in San Jose, Calif., and officials were unsure what to do with them.
"OBVIOUSLY WE can't let them stay there," said Santa Clara County official James McEntee. "The biggest problem is health. We're looking for a building or some other alternative to house them."
St. Vincent de Paul asked the city for permission to operate a 300-bed shelter in a vacant downtown warehouse, but neighboring businesses and property owners petitioned the city to deny it.
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