The policy was made public one day after the U. S. Supreme Court held bus segregation unconstitutional.

B. W. Franklin, vice president of National City Lines, told The Associated Press:

"We're not going to enforce segregation."

Franklin told a newsman there are segregation statutes in all Southern states and some city ordinances also provide for separation of white and Negro passengers.

"NO CHOICE"

"To the best of our knowledge, the Supreme Court declared the South Carolina statute unconstitutional," he said.

"This company has no choice but to comply with the decision of the Supreme Court. For that reason we are not going to attempt to enforce segregation laws.

"We always comply with laws in effect. Now the Supreme Court says the (segregation) laws no longer are constitutional - no longer in effect.

"We're not going to enforce segregation."

Franklin did not predict the effect of the company's policy. But he said he understood the mayor of Mobile, Ala., had asked for segregation on a voluntary basis.

National City operates city buses in Montgomery and Mobile, Ala., Jackson, Miss., Tampa, Fla., Tulsa, Okla., and Beaumont, Wichita Falls and El Paso, Tex.

Franklin said he assumes that "what applies to one, will apply to all."

National City Lines has headquarters in Chicago.