The Region - News from Sept. 27, 1987

A group of homeless people, many of them uprooted from a closed urban campground in Los Angeles, continued a protest trek into affluent communities by marching from a Beverly Hills park, where they had spent Friday night, to an oceanside park in Santa Monica. The City of Los Angeles closed its 12-acre urban campground for the homeless Friday morning after 3 1/2 months of operation. The march is intended to make those in “influential and affluential� areas aware of the plight of the homeless, said its leader, homeless activist Ted Hayes. When the marchers awoke Saturday morning in Beverly Hills they were greeted by a resident bearing croissants. During the afternoon they headed for Palisades Park in Santa Monica, where they planned to spend the night, but they received a chilly reception from a half-dozen transients who are regulars in the park and viewed the march as a publicity stunt. An argument ensued, but no one was injured. Santa Monica police said they did not anticipate any further problems.