$575,000 GOES TO CHARITY
From News Services and Staff Reports
Column: AROUND THE NATION
Saturday, November 22, 1986
; Page A04
LOS ANGELES
-- LOS ANGELES -- Charities in 15 states are to receive more than $575,000
before Thanksgiving Day from Hands Across America, which sponsored a
transcontinental linking of hands May 25 for the hungry and homeless.
Organizer Ken Kragen said Thursday that Hands Across America decided to
move slowly in making the allocations after learning the event would bring in
far less than the $50 million originally projected.
About $15.5 million of the $25 million total contribution has been netted
for the poor, officials said. About $10,000 is coming in weekly, they said,
projecting that $20 million will eventually be available for the hungry and
homeless.
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