European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Defense department is Tang of a critical look at several Hundred of tlnsta11atlozi$. In \ live major offs " and expects to close Down dispose of a sizable number. Just How Many depends on the de needs for five years ahead. 36, cities Are Philadelphia and Al often Caseb where surveys air Sace in. Progress and Chicago jew Orleans and los Angeles where surveys will be under Way ihortly.? others not yet selected face looked at next year. The military services hold _ or rent roughly Soo units of re restate in the five cities Andt Iier surrounding areas. I include such items As training Camps and hospitals air lds and Nike missile Sites sup ply depots and warehouses and offices and recruiting centers. The surveys Are part of a five year project launched by defens Secretary Bobert Mcnamara Early last year noting thai the depart ment had a total of some 6,700 installations in the Continental United states Mcnamara ordered his staff to find out How Many could be disposed of. Kept on the books " a Large number ate training cabs Jand other facilities built curing the korean War and kept on the books since then in either standby or limited use status so far roughly 3,000 installation shave been surveyed. Of these 171 have been put up for disposal at an estimated $234,000,000 in annual sayings. Not All have been sold however the general services administration which is the government s property custodian and disposal agent first circulates an inquiry to other Federal agencies to find out whether the property is needed elsewhere in the government. Real estate in put on f the  it is not requisitioned by another Agency. In Selling a unneeded military facility. Gas gives first refusal to local interests. For example the Presque Isle me air base has been taken Over by the state of Maine As a 100-acre vocational i Chook. The air Force helped 7 out by tarning Over Mostof the office furniture and hangar equipment sat  in training courses. I if i of elsewhere local groups have been encouraged to convert abandoned Trpin Jne Camps in d airfields into shopping centers housing developments schools hospitals Industrial Parks and so on. The de sense department has established in office of economic adjustment to assist in finding new uses for ol3 installations. Approved Washington special the nayytp., bureau1, of weapons has approved a contract with lock he in a congressional election  political pressure has directed against the planned elimination of 751 guard end re serve units and a related proposal to Cut guard and Reserve Man Power from 700.00 to 642.000 men. The defense department said nearly half of the 50 governors have written letters which have come to the attention of Secretary of defense Roberts Mcnamara All were critical. Thirty three of the 100 senators have written about half opposed and the rest either forwarding letter s from constituents or asking information apparently none sup ported the reorganization plan. Slightly fewer than 50 House members have written to Mcnamara on the question the Pentagon said with about one third of them registering opposition and the rest sending along letters from the Home folks or seeking information. Here too there was no known expressions of  this fight the army has a powerful ally in Mcnamara who has shown in the past he does t Bend easily to  army believes the final Lan Guage of a military Money Bill Al ready passed in different versions by the House and Senate will per it to go ahead with its controversial reorganization plan. But the army is braced for the distinct possibility that Congress May order it to keep the guard at 400,000 men and the Reserve at300.000. A House Senate conference committee is expected to work out Compromise language on this next week. The original House b ill does not require these manpower floors the Senate Bill does and in the past the Senate View on this ques Tion has  army proposal to trim authorized guard and Reserve Man Power by 58,000 men33,000 guard and 25,000 Reserve is Only in directly related to the plan. The army says the lower figure of 642,000 is about All it can expect to Muster in the coming year unless it undertakes an extraordinary recruiting Effort and Lowers it  men in the units to be Dis banded would not be released but would be assigned to other outfits or to a manpower Pool available for use As reinforcements in any Call up. However the army holds Trump card it could withdraw Federal recon a nation and with it Federal Drill pay and equipment from any unit it decided had no place in the modern organization. . College choir sings in Europe Heidelberg the dec voice Heidelberg Ohio College concert choir arrives in Europe wednesday for a 23-Day singing tour of five european countries. The choir s itinerary include concerts in Germany at Heidelberg Speyer Stuttgart Esslinger Ober to Imergan Nuernberg Berlin and Frankfurt. The mixed voice choir sings both sacred and secular numbers. Their army Piks Maryland site for new War lab special the has designated . My. As the site he limited War Laboratory / oratory Ivyll provide the than organization Tor Trie development4 of specialized weaponry and other Materiel for use in guerrilla Jand counter insurgency operations. �. Sfecol3sterling a Holmes has been elected As the Laboratory Cox he la former combat infantry officer and was  the Redstone Arsenal Huntsville ala.,_ but will take command of the War Labora tory immediately to plan for us activation. The Laboratory staff of approximately 70  civilian personnel will represent a wide variety of scientific Fields and1 will work closely with key agencies of the army s combat development system included will be chemists physicists electronic scientists natural scientists analysts and engineers who will conduct research Cind development to provide highly effective weapons and techniques to meet requirements of forces in the Field recruitment of key civilian personnel has started. Various facilities Are planned for the Laboratory for the conduct of its unique work including specialized facilities experimental Fabrica Tion shops and a Library. Program ranges from classics by Bach Haendel Schubert and Brahms to negro spirituals and Stephen Foster Folk songs to mod Ern choral selections from Rodgers and Hammerstein and Gershwin. Heidelberg College an institution of the United Church of Christ is located in Tiffin Ohio and has fun enrolment of 1,000,its conservatory of music was founded in 1885 and has always been a prominent department of the school. Choir director is  e. Ohl a graduate of the College. Since 1958, the College has sponsored an Exchange program with the University of Heidelberg Ger Many. Some 25 of its students Are currently studying at Heidelberg University under this  choir s itinerary includes Sun corp. Gets Navy work Washington special the Navy purchasing office has awarded a $1,720,782 contract tothe Sun electric corp., Chicago. Concert stops at the Hague Amsterdam Brussels Lucerne and  in Germany Are Tun 23, Huldt Lbw unit atty. Suite 24. Protestation to i ret. . Jun 25, America House Stuttgart. Jun 25, gymnasium nit Kirche. Ii line n. Juit j5, Hotot aim Prmt. Hora Moriau Jun 30, amerith in. No Inderg. July 2-3. Bar Len. July 9, wet a treat Frankfurt. Nearly All begin at 8 . Tickets to the concert in Thenee Aula. At Heidelberg univer sity next saturday will be 2 Marks at the door. Ambassador Gavin presented Law degree Paris Sas  Ambas Sador James 1. Gavin received an honorary doctor of. Laws degree from Dartmouth College Hanover no. Last week. Gavin flew from a Para to new Hampshire and returned to his embassy Post the following Day. Will Kite Sou besi mat the sen eve a g vah mohair Caltra air a War for the icon Ter Cor Tel own my Myrn curs