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mi-1Show Of Force Prevents Second, - .Disturbance At Russell's Pointenwc Ei sictoW!thlt;RUSSELL’S POINT (/P)—A show j of them in their upper ’teens )f -strength by officials at this re-1 joined in.»rt community sent an estimated j. Fights broke, out, rocks were!*} im-hOo vnunr* nennle nn their wav thrown, and before the disturb*iance was brought under control 901 minutes later, the main state |y« ( ( route through town had been j \*Mayor Gene Gooding said the j blockaded. —rLQung_people began to congregate« Several score of the tVoublemak- i T ibq;ut l4 p m. near the .entrance to j ers' ended up withbioodied nossri heamusementpai^;here,the;brokenteethandotherevidences!100-500 young people on their .way fuesday and officials say it pre-/ented a recurrence of an earlier iotous disturbance.;pot where disturbance broke, out shortly after ^midnight Tuesday,Gooding said nearly 40 Highway 3atroimen and auxiliaries, Logan bounty Sheriff’s Dep^t, 10-:al police and Russell’s Point Fite Department blocked off Ohio 366, closed ail businesses along the nain street and watched the growing group of youths. After about an hour and a half, the youths began to disperse and officials reopened the highway.- Sev-craL hours later the stores were reopened.By evening things had returned to iabout normal and holiday vacationers were heading for home.Police said; a “few young drunks” got out of hand early Tuesday and the disturbance snowballed. With “nothing better to do,” hundreds of yodths, mostof the disorder. Police Chief EdlC*Tate said pine Were arrested. ho• . .... vEstimates of the number in-yojyed, including-niany from cot- yatages around the big lake here foi* lI} the July 4th observance, ranged ^ to 1,000, but a highway patrol Pr spokesman fixed the number at jst;4 i400 or 500.11tubiBluffton Youth' ' 1 • ' ! Are AttendingMennonite CampBLUFFTON — Seven young peo- j■ 1pie returned from Camp Friedens- Iwald on Sunday evening and an-] other 10 left for the camp on f Mon jay morning. Camp FHedens-4 waldj is sponsored by the Central District Conference of the Men-
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Findlay Republican Courier
Findlay, Ohio, US
Wed, Jul 05, 1961
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