Fireworks shake hundreds of homes and wake up thousands of old folk at 10:30 p.m. Friday

OK, it is 10:30 and the big boom boom boom shook the house and I ran to get a shotgun, some duck shells and a flash light and started out the door to defend the neighborhood from the Nazis, Commies or new-age terrorists when I suddenly remembered that it was the night of the final Hog baseball game and that fireworks would be allowed at Baum Stadium at George Cole Field. The only victims will be the pair of Canada geese and their two goslings on the detention pond outside right field. The old ones probably have led the goslings across 15th Street and may not return. They did that two or three years ago but survived.