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CHARLIE BENBOW, STATESVILLE, NC
Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen:
My name is Charlie Benbow and I live in Statesville. I
have lived in Statesville for thirty years. I represent
the Concerned Taxpayers of Iredell County.
I'm not against hospitals, I'm not against doctors.
I have a son who is a doctor in Concord. He's a pediatrician.
His name is John Benbow, and I think some of you have sent
your grandchildren and children to him.
I'm not against hospitals. My grandfather, Dr. John
Wesley Long, started John Wesley Long Hospital in Greensboro
about the same time Dr. Henry Long started H. F. Long
Hospital in Statesville. So I was raised in a hospital
family. I know what I'm talking about,
I'm also a member of the board of trustees of Iredell
Memorial Hospital. I have been ever since it started, and
I am totally 100% opposed to this bond issue. A few weeks
ago some of us read about a poll that was taken by the Epley
Company in Charlotte, that Iredell Memorial Hospital paid
over $5,000 for, and we didn't believe that poll.
That poll said that they polled 400 people over the
phone. Now some of us have started making our own polls.
We are going to poll the whole country. So far, we have
polled 1,200 people person to person, face to face.
I'll tell you the results of that poll in just a minute.
Boon 25 P*977