European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes losses its traffic into 6small-Townerv Lap. To  i r. There fax problem. A Tsway Trump a warm is Verib a tiros a 1every- erg thiere will or it s a untangle1 new York s. New Bow of i n g 3 1.4 k million rimmed into 315,5 Square tunnels and "59, Bridges ill More honking j cars a studies show to re aulos in lower Man Nev Roni j 57th us do bf-few1 Niiles of Redd political infighting. 1, Nothe answer " is Barnes 55, four months on the your toughest problems Inis flow Crpss Man Afflic at Toldt Wii nos to designate a few nonstop a ill log one utes. But so Lar Between a mayor Rottert Sui Wagner prom ised Arnest Ijmte hand f to come it Jtj Ujj s a5 r f said that he is facing a massive and complicated task that can t Bedone quickly or easily. But Barnes la uniquely qualified to achieve the sustained improvements that we must  if that did t set up Barnes As a Handy target for political Brick bats the commissioner s own words some time later  some toes Here Are going to get stepped on Barnes hinted. Maybe i la get my nose punched  Barnes tangled immediately Wuh Park Avenue doctors and Diplo Mats. He ordered a crackdown on double parked limousines bearing the tetters my or do on their License  you re going to Grant Park ing privileges to one class you have to Grant them to All Barnes declared. Ticket them and let them go to  the major s official car Hewuse t in it Sot .1 parking ticket during Barnes first week on tha  Baltimore where he was traffic Ron missioner for s1 year before coming Here he had re fused to Reserve a special parking place for a mayor s  coming to new York in january he also has experimented with the Bai ups dance during which air ruffle lights at at Corner arc turned red at the same Tim and pedestrians scramble in All  he has spent most of his time getting bus staff organized building Public support for hts program and warning of f. The pub Lic attacks and investigations of tt3ftangling the mass Henry a Barnes left operate a traffic Tignal control at Broad Way and Wall f Street in new York the signal turned All traffic he fits a last monday reported that the ouster no Ted among other things a the minister had  j during Jils inaugural a year ago and by his in blon with the state depart , an tra Lati student at Nubia University who -had., a iranian government of rial relations took1 the to  the incident threatened1 United s tales difficulty for presbyter i in Iran h was present at to Ese get immediately after Kotite he attended a service ils supporters in the base the churchvbefpre1 Mer i the Rev. Craydon e. My stood up and said close. So the worship of jriuef1 " yes  Are chiefly respond in  r stay behind personal remained1 in Serai Presbyl Rol the new York read an sex indictment " id  appears compulsive. J Merriam s nth " t 1l Kiadii announced 1that he s " a tenseness Hung Over the congregation 1 Many of whom expressed aloud t h a i r Devotion to Merriam. = of Fer the regular service and before the ,1 the dissident group Rose in Masse and filed solemnly to the exit led by John a. Davidson a Columbia University graduate student most of the group were students and eld Erly persons. They included Mer Riam s Mother. Mrs. Charles Mer Riam and his brother and sister in Law or and mrs Charles Mej i Anvil of Schenectady js.y., who had been sitting with the minister in an eighth Riv Pew. Meriam s removal last week started a controversy among presbyterian clergymen  38-year-old minister a Bach Elor denounced the methods used by the presbytery. Reached later at his Home Mer Riam said he was gratified at the response., what has happened is that non conformity has become a sin throughout american life. This i what i m fighting he said. Take the incident with the dog. When i first came to new Yorkie year ago i brought with me a German Shepherd Blitz who had been the Mascot of my previous Church the first presbyterian Church of Portsmouth a when i left my hotel room to attend my first service Here brought the dog to Church with me not wanting to leave him alone. I introduced my family Dur ing my first Sermon and then i noticed that the children in the congregation were looking at the dog with great , i then introduced the dog explaining that this was a close Friend of mine to whom i la have to say Goodby because i can t keep him in new York it was my Way of breaking the ice Don t you see and i must scythe congregation did not object. Some even had tears in their  Dobrynin just one of the boys Grin no caviar at Russ embassy Thomas Washington up the rus Sian embassy is Light on party food and heavy on smiles these Days. The new russian a ambassador analogy  Don Rynn has torn a Page from his predecessor Mikhail. Smiling Mike Menshikov s Book in wooing friends. In Washington at least at the beginning of his diplomatic tenure Here. Dobrynin has not Only been Smil ing but tossing off i american Idi oms just Hka one of the boys doing the Fox Trot at the White House and complimenting i jazz combo for their Cool up Tempo tunes. He did air these " at the recent White House diplomatic reception which Jie attended with his eng Lish speaking wife Irona. Tall professorial looking Dobry Niri is Cut from a different cloth than some of his russian1 a reduces  r -.__,".those who have occupied the palatial russian embassy on 16th Street in the past. Include grim faced Andrei a Gromyko and the late poker faced. Gen. Georgi n. Zarubin. _ v theirs was the stalinist yet Era n n a lot of sweetness and High. Isl pervading. The embassy and it social doings the embassy reacts like a polite Al barometer with its social Lite mucin Dep Dent on Day to Day -. Relations with the United Stales. The current slight thaw in the Berlin picture and the visit of cosmonaut Ghermon Tislov have brought russians and american together again in a relatively Friendly spirit on the Washington social scene. The soviet embassy has Bee doing a lot of entertaining. Guest lists at receptions like the one honouring Titov carry the names of hundreds. Despite the new social look How Ever an Economy wave seems Mohave struck the embassy. Not Only have the Buffet tables been Short of the traditional caviar but every other kind of canape tray is pick Dover and emptied before the party passes its Halfway Mark. Reporters attending the Titov reception were surprised to find that within an hour the Vodka scotch acid Bourbon were running Low and Only the serving trays had not been replenished the soviet embassy like most other embassies usually goes Over Board on food and drink at such parties particularly when top strata guests from the . Come to Washington. The t Tov reception brought to Gether a Hall of Fame of the space age. Guests included astronaut it col and mrs John h. Glenn  Alan b. Shepard and his wife and or. Wernher von Braun the army missile scientist. They were Al mobbed by guest who wanted to have their pictures taken with the space nge  embassy officials were particularly amused at Tlatov s Initia Tion into american publicity. They still Are shaking their Heads Over the Way he was besieged by photographers. Some White House observers also Are shaking their Heads at the sight of a Veteran Newspaperman Long sophisticated and experienced in meeting world figures who asked Titov for his autograph. One sol id achievement is an extra million dollars in the department s new budget a Little step Touarti the $108 million he estimates it will Cost to straighten out the traffic  disputing the doctors and diplomats Barnes took on Robert o s e a apparently unwittingly. Barnes suggested publicly that express buses be allowed to use the parkways reserved for an tog and hat Parks might be used to Allevi ate the parking crush. Moses Holder of a do Sere important state regional and City offices replied As chairman of their Borough b r i d g e and Tunnel  is plenty of room in new York for men of or. Zanies Cour age and Energy Moses advise the newcomer. But they can t function in a vacuum assume that new York is just a bigger Balti More or that Wisdom began with  further advised that the Riar Ownys Many of them planned by him were restricted to Passen Ger cars for More leisurely travel. I agree heartily Barnes re plied. Some of the most leisurely driving in the world takes place on the parkways Here about five Miles an hour in Peak periods. Cars go bumper to bumper and fender to  word Battle is Stolti raging. Of More consequence is a prob Lem Barnes inherited with Tolfe Job a parking meter mess currently being investigated by a grand jury Anel by City investigations com missioner Louis Kaplan. Both Kaplan and dist atty. Frank s. Hogan said it All happened before Barnes arrived with out specifying what exactly is be ing  Barnes said the probing is a. Severe Handicap taking up the time of the traffic department and completely demoralizing my whole staff.""1 May be disgusted he declared but i am too damned meant leave and i m going to stay in spite of  Ohio i. President seated Athens Ohio