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McComb, Miss., police had just finished escorting five battered Freedom Riders into a Greyhound bus (TIME, Dec. 8) when an onlooker turned in disgust to a group of newsmen. "Is anybody here from Jimmy Ward's paper?" he asked. "I want him to look at them niggers sitting in the front. What do you think Jimmy would have to say about that...
...Jackson Daily News (circ. 42,593) would say about the "Friction Riders"-as the News calls them. Jimmy did not let them down: "The Congress of Riot Encouragement [Ward's phrase for the Congress of Racial Equality] and concerned officials in Washington rejoice that McComb fell and the Greyhound bus terminal rest room has been integrated. While these dear hearts are jubilant over victory day, people down this way mark last Friday as VD day in Mississippi...
Rolling up on schedule at the pink stucco bus depot in McComb, Miss. (pop. 15,500), a Greyhound discharged six Negro passengers. While a crowd of some 600 whites pushed against police cordons, the Negroes walked into the terminal's white waiting room, sat for three minutes while their baggage was unloaded. It was the first time a public facility had been integrated in Mississippi...
...around a major drawback of the trailer (in most states, the law forbids occupancy while the car is in motion). Dodge division of Chrysler Corp. has produced the "Motor Home," which looks like something between a Greyhound bus and an oversized Volkswagen truck, makes the trailer an integral part of the car, and permits a trailer wife to cook breakfast, take a shower, or snooze, while her helpmate reels off the miles...
Thus Bryant did not encourage five young Negroes when they decided to sit at McComb's Greyhound and Woolworth lunch counters in August. All were arrested, and one, Brenda Travis, 16, was treated as an adult and sentenced to eight months in jail, where she spent a month...