Huntington Beach Riot
Holiday weekends are an anachronism. They have lost their meaning and are now used as an excuse for every form of anarchy by the hooligans who congregate in rat packs to flout authority.
Drugs and drunkenness, guns and knives are the order of the day. What happened at Huntington Beach is a warning of things to come.
VIOLET M. ASHTON
Huntington Park
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