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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1971
Page
2
Guilford County Emergency Transportation Service operates with rapid response, advanced EMT training, and a county radio network. It handles about 30 calls daily, totaling 8,798 in 1970-71, with 65 percent collection of fees and ongoing garnishment efforts to recover debts.
The High Point Enterprise reports on Guilford County ambulance service under Finison since 1969 expansion from 20 to 39 personnel and eight modern ambulances. William Davis handles patient pickups with about 90 percent success, fees are 25 dollars per one way trip within the county, with special rates for same family groups. Medicaid does not pay, welfare recipients may obtain hospital forms for social service funding. Improvements include relocations to Guilford County Building and new stations near I-40 Red Road and improved Greensboro operations.
A four and five year old fun and fitness program returns for a third year at the High Point YMCA starting Sept 13 with pre enrollment limited. A kindergarten track for five year olds on Tuesdays and Thursdays adds to the regular schedule on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays.
A humorous observed list of everyday hazards besides smoking including unsafe street crossing, bad supermarket moments, crowded elevators, restaurant mix ups, tardy bosses, cooking misfires, fishing mishaps, and a punchy note that women should carry hazard labels too.
Cheerio YMCA Camp at Roaring Gap completes an 11th season with about 1100 boys and girls. A new swimming pool highlighted the summer, with plans for tennis courts. Hibbard directs the camp. Cooke notes staff excellence and varied courses from photography to archery.
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will collect donations August 11 and 12 from 10 00 am to 3 30 pm at the Chapter House 2011 English Rd High Point residents donated 384 pints in June with 135 to High Point Memorial Hospital 50 to Baptist Hospital Winston Salem 49 to North Carolina Memorial Chapel Hill 38 to Duke Durham and 15 to Community General Thomasville First time donors make up about 17 percent of local donors well below the national 25 percent average The committee hopes to reach 400 donations this visit led by chairman W J Kelly.
P. G. Dick Myers will replace D. Leon Rickard as Davidson County Tax Supervisor and assume office Aug. 16. He has served as county tax collector since Dec. 5, 1966, and will continue as tax collector until a successor is named. Myers' salary rises from 9380 to 10500 annually. Rickard, tax supervisor since 1966, resigned to enter private industry.
A humorous portrait of Forrest Cates the city hall journalist as his daughter Debby prepares to marry on Friday the 13th. The piece highlights his quirks from reading habits to fashion choices and tinselly anticipation of a tuxedo and soap opera styled Sunday columns.
High Point Fire Department will start its yearly home fire safety tour Monday with two companies inspecting houses in shifts. Fire Chief H L Thompson urges cooperation and warns about imposters, noting inspectors will wear uniforms and carry proper IDs. The two month effort includes a home visit, a self check list, and safety guidance on furnaces stoves and chimneys to prevent fires as heating season begins.
In Lexington two days remain before the local option ABC election on alcohol sales. Drys organize a campaign with a headquarters near the old Davidson County Courthouse while wets lack a visible group. Past ABC races show dry majorities of 562 votes in 1965 and 175 votes in Thomasville.
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