From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for August 25, 1974:

The Douglas County Commission was looking into charges of poor management in the county-subsidized Gold Cross Ambulance Service, commissioners said today. Commission Chair Walter Cragan said the county had asked ambulance service operator Leonard Barber for a complete report. Cragan added that many of the issues raised by employees were “nitpicking” and that the motives of the seven employees who had brought the problems to light were to be questioned. The employees had complained that they had had to steal a minor amount of needed supplies from Lawrence Memorial Hospital; that some vital ambulance equipment had not been working for several months; and that an unauthorized attendant had made ambulance runs. The Lawrence building inspection department had also reported that the ambulance headquarters, 1839 Massachusetts, was in serious need of repair.