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...Macon, smack in the middle of Georgia, has long been a railroad city. The old train depot downtown, finished just in time for the farewells and homecomings of World War I doughboys, is defunct but still grand. The Georgia Power Co. plans to spend $3 million making its interior a trendy warren of shops and offices. The neoclassical façade is to remain unchanged-almost. Georgia Power wants to cover up the anachronistic inscription-COLORED WAITING ROOM-engraved over one entranceway. Says a company spokesman: "We don't want to offend any of our black customers...
...Some of Macon's blacks, however, want to preserve the sign as a reminder of their past struggle. "It's not offensive," says State Representative Billy Randall, who was obliged to use the Jim Crow waiting room as recently...
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...passengers were fraternity members and "rushees" traveling to Randolph-Macon Women's College. Libby Wilson, a spokesman for the UVA information services, said the fraternities started using U-Hauls for frequent "rolls" to women's colleges, but that most have discontinued the practice...
...there were more to come. The following day, after addressing a civic club in Macon, Ga., FBI Agent Michael Twibell not only endorsed Director Webster's statements as "right on target" with "full facts behind him" but went on to finger one category of suspects. "Some of those kids were killed by their parents," Twibell remarked. The motive: the children had been "nuisances...