European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday. December 9.1986 sex Marine still running True to form b Charlie  Bureau Munich when Tom Knoll was in the marines he got hooked on Mak ing Money with Ltd. Now retired after 33 years in inc corps Knoll s Hail continues. He s made More than s100.0uo on Ltd and has n personal goal of making a million Bucks. But Ltd to Knoll is not a drug it s running Long slow distances inc Only Good kind or Ltd in the  Knoll who works for the 66th Mili tary intelligence brigade in  run about 50,000 Miles in the past 12 years an average of about 4,000 Miles a year. Since 1978, however he has specialized in Runn ing for Money. Asa Marine Knoll said he had done a lot of jogging and had gradually worked his Way Inlo Long distance run Ning. While stationed in Okinawa he mentioned to a co worker thai he was going to run around inc Island just for inc hell of  the Friend happened to be a Shriner and the Okinawa club asked Knoll if would make the run for their cause. Ii was an exciting  Knoll said and it seemed More in the spirit of Christmas doing some thing for some one  that first three Day run around the250-mile perimeter of the Island netted about si0.000 for the shrink is. It has since become something of an annual event and made Knoll a local hero to crippled a Wildren. N five subsequent runs he has raised More than $80,000 that the shrines use As a transportation fund to help defray the costs of sending crippled children Frum Okinawa to the Shin cars children s Hospital in Hawaii. Knoll s Charity run continues this year. But has Aken on an International flavor. When word got out in his organization thai he was returning to Okinawa this Christmas several people joined the fund raising bandwagon. Pledge sheets arc being circulated and local  Millie Swanson has organized a jazzed disc Marathon thai will Lake place today to raise additional Money. His Success at raising Money caused Knoll 34. 10 set a goal of railing a million for crippled children. And he does t limit his efforts to the shrines. In 1980, he ran 300 Miles in three Days in Southern California for the annual Jerry Lewis muscular dystrophy fund Raiser. Thai Effort brought in 125.000. Bui there have been failures. A 64 Day 3,000-mile coast to of Oast run in 1983 made less than his run for Jen Lewis Knoll said. But he wants to do it again with better organization. If planned right that should finish off the million Bucks Knoll said. As the Start of a big run wears. Knoll starts eating More to put extra pounds onto his wiry Frame. Knoll admits to questioning his own sanity during the course of a run. Near the end of that first run eight years ago he swore he d never do such a crazy thing again. I did the run that first year because 1 liked the idea. But honest to cod at about 240 Miles i knew i would finish but i also knew i d never do it  thai was until he crossed the finish line and was greeted by a Young crippled girl awkwardly holding a Bou Quet of Flowers As she balanced herself on her crutches i knew then that i d do it  runner Tom Knoll gets a kiss from a Little girl in Okinawa. India Duilio groups who wow la to Mulas Lorma run around Okinawa or Loday t jaz Trow rna Wainon can i l Lola Spau King i Munch mdilm440-633s or civilian ofl9-690-127s. Or a Qiajin to Jay n 44d42u to new psf vol u maj Ltd to no of Kinin Smutna a bib transportation fund hell Nikon s enlisted have voice with airmen s advisory Council by Connie Dickey staff writer Athens Greece airmen at Hill Nikon a Are handing together to present one voice on issues in which he feel they otherwise Don t have any say. Since september inc airmen s advisor Council has Mel the first tuesday of each month to hear airmen s problems and then offer solutions to the command. At the first meeting which Only nine airmen attended the four elected representatives heard complaints about airmen being locked out of dormitories. The Council has suggested that Security police carry master keys to the buildings but no action has been taken. Although the Council has had a slow Start base Lead ers Hope More airmen will attend the meetings and problems can be solved. The idea of haying u Council to represent the 274 airmen at Hel Nikon originated with the base com Mander col. Ray l. Rider. A Safe spokesman said Hill Nikon is the Only Safe base to have a separate Council composed Only of airmen councils at other Safe bases represent All ranks he said. Chief master sgt. Rafael Moreno or. And staff sol. Linda Flythe sit in on the meetings As advisers to make sure the Council stays on course and does t turn into a Bitch session Flyth Esaid. We offer suggestions when the airmen need it but we let them run their meeting themselves she said. Besides helping with problems the Council has decided to sponsor social events to gel the airmen out of the dormitories. Their activities Are open to anyone regard Ess of rank. There have been lots of complaints about the dorm life on base and from the folks in Gly Fada said a. I a. Stafford Gill Council vice president. Since most of the airmen Don t have cars Gly Fada is the closest place to go around Here to get off base. But there have been fights there involving airmen and the command wants to keep us out of Gly Fada because there is a lot of drug traffic there. We be been doing some advertising on the radio and we sponsored a Wacky olympics Wilh different organizations on base competing so the word is gelling out and we Hope that As we go along More airmen will join us. Bonn bomb found to be a fake Bonn a police said monday a Cylinder Dis covered in the Yard of chief government spokesman Friedhelm Ost contained no explosives and was harm less. It had been rigged to look like a bomb. Police said sunday that the device was a crude bomb a world War ii grenade casing filled with screws nails Sand paper cartridges and explosives. But in a statement issued monday they said further examination found it to be a homemade Cylinder Only resembling a grenade. They said it contained no explosives no flammable material and could not have caused even a  the Cylinder contained nails screws and Sand and had been designed to look like a bomb police said. Ost s wife Erika found the device in the front Yard of their Home in bad Honnef a Bonn suburb. Security around Bonn ministries and officials was tightened after a top foreign ministry official Geroyd von Brau Muehl was killed by a masked gunman in front of his Bonn Home on oct. 10. The leftist red army faction claimed responsibility for that , 44, a former television journalist became chief government spokesman in june 1985. World today us department store Chain warns employees on theft London a Britain s giant Marks and spen cer stores Chain losing si.4 million a week to thieves has warned its 56,000 staff against stealing John Poppleton the company s publicity chief said sunday that a Booklet titled Down the Drain had been issued to employees to make Plain that staff then won t be taken  than 90 percent of theft cases involved customers not staff but the company Felt that earlier Calls for worker honesty had t achieved inc desired effect. 60 Hurt 3,000 homeless in bulgarian earthquake Sofia Bulgaria a Al least 60 people were injured and More than 3,000 rendered homeless by an earthquake that Shook most of Bulgaria the state Runta new Agency reported sunday. Bra said the quake measured 5.5 on the open ended Richter scale. H said that the epicentre was near the town of Straz hits in Veliko Durnovo county 145 Miles Northeast of Sofia and that the quake was Felt in Eastern Serbia and in Romania. Millions of cubans join in civil defense games Mexico City a millions of cubans Are Takin part in military exercises aimed at preparing the Popula Tion to defend the Island against a Surprise air attack the cuban news Agency Prensa Latina reported. The exercise which began sunday and end Tuiuri Day represents a new approach by the cuban Kilrury toward National defense according to a Prenia latin dispatch monitored in Mexico City. Bastion 86," As the operation is called began with drills thai involved about 7 million people of All Aget m exercises such As defending towns against invade a evacuating residents from their Homes the Agency