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Show Travelers Aid Society Plans S. L. Meetings SJt Lake City will serve next month as host for the first time to a regional conference of the National Travelers Aid Association, Associa-tion, it was announced this week by Harold P. Fabian, president of the Salt Lake City Travelers Aid Society at the monthly board meeting of the United Fund Agency. Delegates from 29 Travelers Aid Societies in 13 states will attend the meeting at the Hotel Uath May 20, 21 and 22 to exchange ex-change experiences and develop methods of further improving Travelers Aid services to people in trouble away from home. Included In-cluded in the region which holds a conference every two years, are Colorado, Iowa, Southern Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska. Oklahoma, California, Texas. Idaho, Oregon, Utah and Washington. "New Directions" will be the theme of the three day conference. confer-ence. Speakers will include the National Travelers Aid president Donald S. Stralem and the association's asso-ciation's general director, Mrs. Savilla Millis Simons, both of New York. The association federates fede-rates 104 Travelers Aid operations opera-tions and 950 cooperating organizations organ-izations in a nationwide chain specializing in service to moving people. "Thirty million Americans change residence each year," Mr. Fabian pointed out, "and one-third one-third of these move into another county, with half 6f them crossing cross-ing state lines. Most of this movement move-ment is both vital to the nation's industrial economy and to the individuals in-dividuals themselves. "But movement cannot occur on such a vast scale without causing difficulties as well. For over a hundred years Travelers Aid has specialized in overcoming overcom-ing those difficulties through the I country's only voluntary service concerned with helping people who are away from home and in trouble. Here in Salt Lake City we have spent 34 years at the city's gateways, helping travelers, trav-elers, transients and newcomers to cope with their problems. Last year, 1,703 cases benefitted from the work of the Salt Lake City Travelers Aid Society. I "Of course this was not a one way street, because at the same time that we were taking care of strangers to Salt Lake City, Travelers Aid Societies in other cities were helping residents of Salt Lake City when they were in difficulty. This element of reciprocity is one reason why Travelers Aid Societies ' have a particular need to coordinate their work through such devices as regional conferences." The Board of Directors of Salt Lake City Travelers Aid Society is planning various forms of hospitality hos-pitality for visiting delegates, Mr. Fabian added. |