Ambulance Director James Finison shaping Guilford ETS growth
James Finison leads Guilford County Emergency Transportation Service from a five-van start with 20 staff to nine vehicles and 54 workers. He champions training and telemetry to speed heart patient care and praises ETS as among the best in U S communications. Finison, born in Alabama in 1930s, built a career from Greensboro Fire Dept rescue work to state rescue training leader before returning home as ETS director March 1969.
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Jim Hawkins
Greensboro
James Finison
Guilford County
Emergency Transportation Service
ETS
Finison
United States
Williamston
Claude and
Wilma Finison
Alabama
Greensboro Senior High School
Barbara Dunivant
St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church
International Rescue and First Aid Assn
N.C. Assn
Roaming the Piedmont looks back at train times and ecologist farmers
A nostalgic piece recalls Waiting for Train No 31 at a Piedmont station with hot waiting rooms and steam whistles. The author links early mornings, star gazing, and a derailment memory to family drove Model T rides. The essay shifts to farming ecology noting soil and water conservation as core to agriculture and the need for reasonable environmental standards.
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Rudolf Diesel
High Point
Daddy
Elm Street
John Sledge
N. C. Farm Bureau
America
U.S
Voice A Reminder He Must Quit Smoking
A Davidson narrator recounts a humorous inner voice that taunts him about quitting smoking. He narrates using filters and a bar-hopping episode, describing how a mysterious inner voice prompts occasional relapses and later mocks his efforts to quit.
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Greensboro
Carter Faces Uncertain Foreign Policy After Kissinger Era
The world braces as Carter prepares to lead the United States in foreign affairs. Analysts note his inexperience in diplomacy and defense, while advisers Brzezinski Ball and Vance are weighed for top posts. Detente, Middle East peace, and Moscow relations loom as the new administration prepares to define its stance.
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New York
Kissinger
U.S
Jimmy Carter
Washington
Congress
Carter
Caesar
J.C
Yugoslavia
Eastern Europe
Middle East
Northern Ireland
State Dept
Brzezinski
Inger
George Ball
Cyrus Vance
Moscow
Africa
Little Ol Lady Outlines Cold War Civil Defense Read
An editorial discusses how Soviet civil defense and naval buildup threaten Western security. It contrasts Russian storage, credit use, and defense ambitions with U S equity, warning that Moscow could deter nuclear exchange by surviving first with superior civil defense and conventional forces.
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Russia
West
Tennies
Kremlin
Washington
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Mother
Thomasville
Lexington
Spencer
Salibury
Points Beyond
Davidson
Gorshakov
U.S. Navy
J. William Middendorf II
Middendorf
Eilat
Red China
Sevie
Gorshkov
Navy
Information Department
Www
USA
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