European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse July 1977 the stars and stripes its a us contestant with no room Lor plows and Ricky Curtis dashes a Psi the finish line Ai the Winner of the 2mlle wer Thclma Competition with brother units German teams join in the re leg run1 by Bob Wagner stall writer Germany a fast the inspiration came rum the army two mile ran the Competition came front Mare than 300 soldiers from the army 72nd Field arty croup and their counterparts from the German army they called it the 72nd Field arty groups first annual re leg it seemed Only filling thai Ricky a private from the groups 3rd in 35th held arty in Wortheim should have been the Winner in the two mile Cross country Curtis crossed the finish line in five seconds ahead of 4 Francisco Albular of Bamberg 6th 10th Field Curtis and his teammates also finished first among the 10 learns six american and our German teams competed in this first of what apparently will be an annual the according to a 72nd Field arty group was conceived when Vii corps required its units to insure that 3 minimum of 95 per cent of All units could Complete a two mile run in 17 minutes or the Field arty group became the first major combat unit within the corps to achieve the goal and decided to Tekell a step we decided to hold Competition among our the spokesman to also decided to our brother units from the uth arty Hgt of the German army to the top German team was the list Field arty in from which came in third behind the army 1st Solh Field arty from As the other top individual finishers were 1st Richard Dameron Al Nur Berns 3rd 17th Field and team mate 1st Doyle 2nd Rodney Luce of Crail Rheims 2nd 42nd Field Bernardo Fig Uera Gabaen or the ctr loth Field Ralph and teammate 4 we Curtley Bell of the 3rd 35lh Field William nth 10th Field ii of and Terry 6th 10th Field other teams entered in the race were German army units ram and taut Bischofsheim and the 1st 75ih Field arty from the runners put a Little project partner ship into the with a trophies were presented to the tap teams and medallions to the top individuals by Sidney Davis of the 72nd Field any Wertheim sub Community and Fritz Joachim commander of Germany j2lh arty keeps fhe lid on Numberg Story and photo by Dan Synovec Numberg Bureau chief Nurnberg keeping the peace in the neighbourhood is a 24hour a Day Job that runs seven Days a according to George a 37yearold native of serves As the Community affairs officer for the Nurnberg Mili tary the no a templs la determine who or what the cause of problems in the sprawling army neigh Borlund by going out and interviewing the individuals or families he also listens to their complaints and then refers them to the proper Agency in the Community thai can Best help a year said a Veteran of 19 years in the the numbers Community was plagued by prob lems of vandalism and clashes Between we were seeing repetitive said we were dealing with the same especially Young ii want that we had a Large number of offenders m the we were just seeing the same ones Over and Over last the military Community Farmed a de pendent advisory Board to handle incidents and clashes among families and Randel said that since the Board was formed the number of serious problems in the Community has been reduced from 29 a week to about three a week after Handel investigates a complaint or his report is forwarded to the dependent advisory Board the Board decides what action should be taken toward the individual or this action m a Range from a member of the Board attempting to counsel the people involved to their being ordered to appear before since the Board was formed a year 24 families have appeared before six of them have been eve George Randel peacemaker studies complaint peeled from the command the Board has been a big de Randel said that living conditions cause Many of the in one Case All of the sponsors and their wives living in one stairwell were ordered to appear before the the sponsors received letters or rep Rimand because their wives had conspired to get another occupant residing in their stairwell into trouble by making false complaints to the military police about nonexistent was nothing More than the other wives being Jeal Ous of another woman who lived in their stairwell be cause she was he shaking his Randel said he has followed up on cases of people who Call in false complaints the callers never give their names to the military the callers need help and counselling try to use the military police to a Barass a neighbor they dont he but we arc very careful that we Arent used As a tool to Embarrass people who May be innocent of any wrongdoing or he he said that 99 per cent of the people in the Community Are Good solid citizens who wont to live in the people who eventually make it to the Board Are those who sit at Home and continually find fault with other people or with the services the army offers them in the comm he these same people arc the ones who never go anyplace and dislike being in he they feel uial once they return to the United slates All of their problems will be said i started out Here three years ago As a juvenile officer but i found out that you cant Deal with juveniles with out dealing with the he said that be talks to As Many As 24 people a not because they have ended up in but because Many of them seek to resolve the dependent advisory Board has reduced Many of the problems in toe Community because people know that they sow have someplace to they have an it has opened lines of he he cited one Case that the Board heard involving two one of the wives had complained that the other woman had put Dye in the washing when the two wives appeared before the it was determined that the subject of the particular Case had not put Dye in the woman washing she explained to the Board that she simply put Dye in a Box of her own washing powder As a Means of determining who had been stealing her the victim became the subject and the became the he
