From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 30, 1974:

Douglas County commissioners were planning to meet in early November to learn about the financial status of the Gold Cross Ambulance Service, 1839 Massachusetts. Commissioners noted that they had not been receiving monthly financial statements from the service, as required by an amendment to the original contract with Leonard Barber, service operator and manager. The service was also reportedly having trouble keeping up with payments to some of the firms it did business with. Mike McCleery, a worker at the Conoco station at 19th and Massachusetts, said the ambulance service owed about $1,200 for gasoline and oil purchased on account going back to March of this year. Barber had promised to make payments once every two months, McCleery said, but he hadn’t done so.