Miscellaneous: Winnfield City Bus Line, 1951, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: July 26, 1951 Winn Parish Enterprise

Milburn Sullivan Starts New City Bus Line Here

A new city bus line is scheduled to begin serving Winnfield and surrounding
area by this week end, announces Milburn Sullivan, who will operate the line.

Two modern 27-passenger Mack busses will make runs to Joyce, Laurel Heights,
and down Atlanta Road to the L. R. & N. Railroad crossing, according to Mr.
Sullivan.  A schedule is published in this issue of the Enterprise.  Busses
will run each hour, with some runs leaving from 5:30 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. and
others from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Name of the line is the Winn City Lines, with headquarters in the Skelly
service station on West Court Street, near Ebb's Gulf Station.  The bus stand
will be at Bevill and Court, one block south of City Hall.

Fares are 10 cents anywhere on the run.  During school months, a fare of five
cents will be charged school children at any time of the day.  Another bus of
the same type now in operation will be added before school starts this
September, Sullivan said.

Mr. Sullivan, brother of Leahmon Sullivan, store operator and school board
member, was reared in Winnfield and has been away for the past 15 years.  He
was employed as a bus driver for 11 years with the Biloxi-Gulfport city lines
in Gulfport, Mississippi.