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"It's not the final number, so I'd like to withhold judgment until I get the final number." "We'll have final numbers a week from Monday," Gillespie said, 'it will go down a couple of hundred." Enrollment should level off to a record around 18.800 students, said Carolyn Johnson, assistant to the associate vice president for enrollment management. Last fall's final enrollment at was Tuesday. "We do still have some students who get permission to register late," Johnson said. Also, some students who take classes from MTSU's off-campus locations will register late. "We may have some exceptions and withdrawals," she said, adding that enrollment has still likely peaked, Gillespie credited the enrollment increase so far to the efforts of the enrollment management team at MTSU and the university faculty.

peak overnight Wednesday with 19,004 students, officials said. 'This is probably the highest it will get, and we'll drop off from there," Johnson said. Payment deadline was Thursday at 5:30 p.m. Then overnight, schedules will be purged from the MTSU computer for students who didn't pay fees by the deadline. "We'll go down a little overnight from the purge," Johnson said.

While fall semester classes began Monday, the last day to register MTSU was a record 18,432 students. MTSU began the fall semester Monday with 18,262 students, up 5.07 percent or 881 students from the first day of classes in fall 1998, according to MTSU's official count. On the first day of 1998 fall classes, MTSU had 17,381 students. Enrollment reached its likely By Angela Cannon Editorwriter MTSU's fall enrollment reached 19,000 students this week for the first time in history, a university official said. A peak enrollment of 19,004 students was recorded overnight Wednesday but was expected to slightly decline as usual as the fall semester begins, according to MTSU statistics.

"It's a little bit more of an enrollment increase than I had anticipated said Cliff Gillespie, MTSU associate vice president for enroll- plans 'arent Sttairtt- your mgiinie contu ndon cGmdren spayneuter Foundation only ended contract for veterinary services ByJimMahanes Staff wnter The Beesley Animal Humane Foundation wants to continue a spayneuter program for animals at the Rutherford County Animal Shelter despite ending its contract with the county for veterinary services, beesley. recently notified the Rutherford County Commission's Public Safety Committee that it would 4 no longer provide veterinary services to the animal shelter after Aug. 31 a contractual agreement the two have had since 1992. Termination of that contract" stems froifi a dis agreement with the county over a change in the private act under i which local animal control Part of that change required X. The Beesley Humane SpayNeuter Clinic is on Haley Road by the county Beesley a private croup to submit a yearly financial report Artist's rendering of Nashville Superspeedway to be located in Wilson County just across the Rutherford County line near state Route 840.

with the county to help account for the $19,500 it gets in tax dollars each year. Beesley balked at that animal shelter. Memphis police not surprised MEMPHIS (AP) A newborn girl found in1 a' trash bin got the city's attention this week, but authorities say parents abandoning their children in less dramatic ways is not at all uncommon. Authorities received 495 reports of abandoned children in Tennessee from June 1997 to June 1998, and 1 18 of those reports, almost 24 percent, came from Memphis. "It happens a lot" said police Inspector A.L.

Gray, a precinct commander whose officers rescued an hours-old infant from a dumpster at a day-care center Monday. That child, now in state custody, was discharged from the hospital Thursday and sent home with a foster family. Doctors said she suffered no permanent injuries from her ordeal. LaKendra Jefferies, 21, an employee of the day-care center where the baby was found, is charged with attempted murder. Police say she delivered the baby in a center restroom without her coworkers' knowledge and then went home complaining of illness.

While authorities say the dumping of newborns in trash bins is rarerotherJdnch trf abandonment are not. On the same day the baby was found in the dumpster at Joyland Child Development Center by a day-care van driver, a 7-month-old was left at Gray's precinct (See Parents, page 5 A) Dover Downs breaks ground in Wilson County for superspeedway request and the county withheld its yearly stipend. That prompted Beesley to terminate the agreement. But even though Beesley will no longer provide veterinary services to the shelter, the group still wants to provide spayneuter procedures for adopted shelter animals as part of its effort to keep the local pet population down, said Beesley President Susan Morton. "The contract we had with the county was for veterinary services.

The money we received from the county went fr euthanasia medicine which we took on liability for because it's a controlled drug. It also went toward (Beesley 's licensed veterinarian) to check on the welfare of the animals. If injured animals were brought in, he'd check on their health for 10 days, things like that," Morton said. "We'll have nothing to do with the. county whatsoever as of the 31st, but we still want to spayneuter shelter anirnals.

"N6mmgwill change as far aS It costs $46 to adopt an animal from the shelter. Of that money, $14 goes to the shelter and $32 automatically goes to Beesley for spay and neuter procedures under a written agreement between Beesley and the shelter. That agreement was set up in 1992 by (See Beesley, page5A) short track with 5,000 seats, a 1.8-mile road course inte- grated into TRACK SUPFBBTBtS CEHCPJ1T1 the main Sh StCRY PacT7C part of the speedway, a "Legends" track, a drag strip including 15,000 seats and a clay oval track with 3,500 seats. An amended lawsuit that has targeted stopping development of the racetrack was filed in Wilson County Chancery Court Wednesday, but Dover Downs officials, though apparently aware of the lawsuit, didn't seem "It's certainly not going to stop us," said Denis McGlynn, president and chief executive officer for Dover Downs Entertainment Inc. "We're moving on with the project." Attorney for Concerned Residents Against (See Start, page5A) By Chris Shofner Staff writer The long-anticipated Nashville Superspeedway is officially under construction near the Wilson and Rutherford counties border.

During a groundbreaking Thursday morning, three bulldozers, donated for the occasion by Thompson Machinery raced to pave the way for construction of a new $125 million superspeedway to be owned and operated by Dover Downs Entertainment Inc. of Dover, Del. Actual, construction is set to begin in early September r. Scheduled for construction in several phases according to market demand, officials said, a 1.33-mile oval track with 50,000 grandstand seats'will be built during the first phase. Subsequent phases will include expansion to 150,000 seats, a five-eighths-mile paved oval DNJ photo by Jim Davis Denis McGlynn of Dover Downs Gel eh rati on keeps bringing fans hack y- 1 --v A rider and horse put in a workout In preparation for the National Walking Horse Celebration in Shelbyville on Thursday.

day before to the day after The Celebration. Finding a house was easy. Finding the perfect place to sit wasn't. Forrester waited 13 years for a track-side box seat to become available, his patience paying off in 1995. He didn't have to wait long to be awarded for his hours of hard work with his horses during the first day of competition.

Thursday night one of his six horses. Affordable Splendor, had already won a ribbon, his daughter, 29-year-old Anne Forrester placing ninth in the amateur-owned-and-trained division. Forrester said any time you bring home (See Celebration, page 5A) event concludes next Friday, 20 world champions will be frowned and more than $600,000 in prize money will be awarded. Just what does The Celebration mean for hard-core walking horse folks? "It's the World Series, the Final Four and the Super Bowl all rolled into one right here in Shelbyville, nonetheless," said Nicky Forrester of Fulton, Ky. Forrester should know.

He comes from a walking horse family, but more impressive, he's missed only one night of The Celebration since his first visit in 1955 with his parents at age The Celebration is such an establishment for the Forrester family that they rent a house in Shelbyville, staying from the 61st annual event under way By Bryan Brooks Staff miter SHELBY VILLE The 61st annual Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration began Thursday night in Shel-byville, luring walking horse enthusiasts from far and wide for the 10-day event. Known as The Celebration to fans, it boasts an annual paid attendance of more than 250,000 and more than 4,000 entries, according to show figures. Before the DNJ photo by Jim Davis Results of Smyrna, Obituaries 5B 4A 2A Sports 1C-8 50 INDEX Business, Market 4B Classified Section Comics 4D The Weather Plenty of sunshine and quite warm. High 92. 6D I.