The Sunday Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 7, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 16, 1979 Page: 4 of 62
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jumped out of his police unit, the pair
was rolling out the front door fighting.
Goss reported that he then pulled his
service revolver and yelled at the sus-
pect, who apparently threw the pistol
away and quit fighting Ms. Hastings.
According to the report, as Goss was
handcuffing the suspect, Ms. Hastings
got into the police car to secure it, but
accidentally pressed the accelerator
and ran into a vehicle parked at 1110
Andrews.
According to police, Goss then
placed the suspect into his damaged
unit and recovered the .22 caliber pis-
tol, $1.94 in change and a shoulder
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The suspect was being held in city
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Trophy-laden Lawtonian Mike Gill is the nation's number one
“Pyro" this year, winning more points with his display than any
other fireworks specialist during annual fireworks convention.
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A meeting of members of the
Comanche Tribe has been called for
7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the conference
room at Fort Sill Indian School.
The results of a special general
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A 21-year-old Houston, Texas, man
was arrested Friday night after a
police officer interrupted an apparant
holdup at a north Lawton liquor store
in a strange series of events which
ended with a damaged police car.
Officer Richard Goss, while on rou-
tine patrol, reported that he observed a
black male and the owner of the Fort
Sill Boulevard Package Store, 1106
Andrews, fighting inside the store.
According to a police report, owner
Martha Hastings told police the sus-
pect entered the store around 9 p.m.
and pulled out a .22 caliber pistol say-
ing “Lady, I’ll kill you." Ms. Hastings
told police she replied “Well, you’re
going to have to shoot me,” and
jumped the suspect.
Goss reported that by the time he
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Mike’s curiosity was aroused about by Max P. Vander Horck in California.
I960 when he read an ad, “Make Your Members receive a monthly journal,
Own” in the classified section of a American Pyrotechnist. Mike has con-
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My designs are individually created by
your lifestyle and facial structures. Allow
me to coordinate your make-up with your
Chinese strobes in a laboratory several were lit until the main thrust, and the
years ago, and found out the chemical popping and burning continued for 10
ingredients. more minutes.
But the American fireworkers Mike and the other pyros believe
couldn’t make it work until Mike’s fireworks are a tradition to be enjoyed,
breakthrough in 1978. He cut up the not outlawed. "With just a little bit of
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A LAWTON pharmacist, he has been Other experimenters had been using discussed.
experimenting with and inventing strobe material that was too large. Doc Pewewardy, coordinator of the
fireworks since he was 12 years old Mike’s breakthrough won him the Tuesday meeting, said that at that
His interest started when he was about Pyrotechnics Guild first place in meeting, which the superintendent of
five years old. Like many other city novice aerial classification in 1977, the Anadarko Indian Agency has not
kids, he attended the big Fourth of recognized, the council approved the
July hangups in Elmer Thomas Park THE CHINESE and the Italians are removal of the secretary-treasurer.
He liked to get cherry bombs and prominent in fireworks. Zambelli and Two petitions, one calling for
silver tornedoes from his Lrth.r Rozzi are premier fireworks manufac- Oberly’s removal and the second for
George. turers in the U.S. Mike says some the chairman’s removal, are now cir-
A cherry bomb goes off when you Italian families hand down fireworks culating among members of the tribe,
light it. A silver torpedo is a kind of formulas like food recipes, from one Pewewardy said.
miniature grenade, which goes off generation to another. MDs, engineers, 4,.—
when it is thrown against a hard sur- a young ( hinese from Seattle — all are W'Ul lIS IVIdLE6•
face. The devices were outlawed in among the enthusiastic pyros who
1963 attend the annual conventions.
The Pyrotechnics Guild was founded
"THAT IS REALLY where I started labels and conducted fireworks
. . At first I just wanted to make a big displays. Two years ago he entertained
boom,” he says. One of his more than 200 friends with a Fourth of
firecrackers made a noise as loud as a July spectacle on a farm near Lawton.
105 howitzer shell exploding.
He advanced from creating big WHEN HE BECAME bored in
booms to rockets, and has fired a chemistry classes at Southwestern
homemade rocket as high as 1,500 feet. State, he’d find himself doodling,
His favorite is the skyrocket. A figuring new fireworks formulas. He
skyrocket is a tube full of powder, admits he’s considered the possibility
which has a tail as it goes up, then of someday going into commercial
explodes with a pop or/and a floral manufacturing of fireworks.
display. The fireworks convention annually
Mike's winning “fountain” was a sets a world rcord by exploding the
red, white and blue display. Fireworks largest string of firecrackers ever,
colors come from different salts. This year at Grand Junction, the string
Barium nitrate and barium carbonate included 250,000 firecrackers. The
make green. Strontium salts are for mass of firecrackers was about 20 feet
red, sodium salts for yellow, and long and three feet thick, and placed
various combinations form various on a scaffold. It took a minute and 10
colors. seconds from the time the firecrackers
The victims told police they then misdemeanor conviction Friday in
drove around looking for the suspects district court.
after waiting a few minutes and finally ,g,
called police from the Burger King. EE . , tencing for Aubrey
The suspects were described as two Ephriamissche du led for Oct. 1 before
negro males, one 37-40 years old, six SPia it Judge Peter Clinton
feet tall, weighing 150 pounds and
wearing green pants, a khaki shirt and Ephriam was convicted of soliciting
a white straw hat, and the other as a male for a lewd act for pay June 28.
25-30 years old, five-foot-seven, 130 The jury recommended a one-year
pounds, wearing a black shirt and light sentence in Comanche County jail.
blue pants with a dark blue hat and The Morning Press regrets this
limping on the left leg. error.
strobe material into tiny one-eighth-
inch cubes, and put an easily ignitable
material outside to make it go off.
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Three Fort Sill soldiers reported be- Michael Wayne Nord, 19, reported
ing robbed Friday night in two being robbed around 9:15 p.m. in front
seperate incidents. of the Texaco station at Fort Sill
Wallace Laughlin, 20, and Ricky Boulevard and Bessie Avenue
Hart, 22, told police they were sitting Nord told police he was robbed of
in their car in the Burger King parking nine dollars cash by two negro male
lot, 2635 (ache Rd., around 7 p.m. suspects, one of which pulled a hand-
when a black male suspect approached gun. According to police, the suspects
Laughlin at the passenger side and then ran south on Fort Sill Boulevard
asked for directions to a street The suspects are described as two
address. , ,, negro males, one five-feet-nine, 145
The soldiers told police a second pounds, wearing a blue shirt and
black male suspect then stuck a blue brown pants, and the other 35 years
steel handgun into Hart s face and old, five feet tall, wearing a black shirt
demanded money. According to police, and black pants
Laughlin handed over $100 and Hart
$40. -------------------------
The complainants told police the Comartn
suspect with the gun then said, "Now
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T AWTON is home of this year's
La best “Pyro” in the nation.
"Pyro" is short for “fireworker,” an
artist and craftsman who makes and
shoots fireworks.
Mike Gill, 26, of Number One Fort
Sill Boulevard, won the 1979 grand
master award at the recent annual
convention of the Pyrotechnics Guild
International Inc., held at Grand
Junction, Colo.
He accumulated more points than
any other fireworks specialist in
ha competition during the annual blast
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rT comet, one for the best fountain, plus
mk second place in the advance rockets
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MIKE'S COMET, which won first in
the comet competition this year,
exploded with a bunch of flashing
white lights, a strobe effect the
Americans obtained from the Chinese.
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