European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes scr Turfay june 16, on surplus items  Asale of some is rfcs million Worth of sur plus items from bulging . De sense stockpiles has been recommended to the Senate by its armed services committee. . Group approved a Bill recommended by sen. Stuart Symington d-mo., chairman of a subcommittee which is conducting a special investigation of the multimillion do  and surpluses. Congressional approval Islene Dedford disposal of most of the  stockpile hems and a. Report fro the  said the Txie As or 7 Hopes to recover about j16q million from these  would lit dive a loss of $17.5 million on Purchase costs but the report estimated annual Sav Ings in storage and maintenance costs of $185,000. It said the stockpiles had Cost about $9 billion with excess  now estimated at $4.6 billion. The p r o  s e d disposal would be 3.8 per cent of this. Senate unit approve forces construction Bill Washington up the Senate armed service committee has approved legislation to author ize 4 j,459,692,000 in military construct Ion projects for the fiscal year starting july 1. The total was $73,505,000 below the amount voted by the House. However the Senate committee considered $45,506,000 in requests made by the defense department after the Houte acted. The Striate total is $191,224,000below the Pentagon s full request. The Senate Bill includes a total of $145,942,000 for army construction both inside the United states and overseas $209,112,000 for the and $736,732,000 for the air a total of $46450.000 is ear marked for other defense agencies and $26026,000 for military hous ing,. Also in the measure is $46,500,000for Reserve organizations. The remainder of the Money is so called deficiency authorizations for projects for which not enough funds were allotted in previous Bills. The measure merely would authorize the outlays. A later Bill will have to be approved to put up the actual Cash. . Protests appearance Russ choir in berlins a the United states has protested to the soviet commandant in Berlin Over a performance by a red army choir the american sector sunday a us. Spokesman Here said. Protest was made after the choir appeared at a festival of rail Road workers sunday. The spokes Man said no permission had been obtained for the performance add ing that this was the basis for the cheers choir b e r l in an Amer ican owned radio station Broad casting commercial programs to Sweden from a ship anchored off Shore will be closed soon the Sta Tion manager said. Manager Jack Kotschack said the station called radio Nord prob ably will suspend operations bythe end of the month after 15 months of round the clock Broad  radio ship anchored outside territorial Waters has supplied some three million swedes in the Stockholm area with music and other entertainment on Commer Cial programs with swedish Spon sors. It has served As a rival tothe swedish state radio which has a monopoly in this country