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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1975
Page
18
Guilford County Animal Shelter urges last minute adoptions as crowds flock to find a pet for Christmas. Supervisor Ernest Greeson notes 75 dogs and a few cats remain, with a $5 adoption fee to ease kennel crowding. The shelter closes early for Christmas and reopens Saturday morning.
A High Point calendar poll shows mixed support for four options. Most back a second option with Labor Day start and shorter breaks, while teachers and students favor the current calendar with a long Christmas and Easter recess. The eight member panel will study options and present a recommendation to the Board, ensuring 140 pupil days, a teacher orientation day, vacation leave, nine holidays, and ten months total.
Deborah Meindl of Lawn dale Avenue seeks help of High Paint police to find her three year old daughter Stephanie Dawn Meindl who has been missing about two weeks. The child was with Harold Land the father for a visit and neither has been seen since, with a Randolph County contempt of court order warrant outstanding against Land leaving the mother as sole guardian. Randolph deputies say the paper was returned to the clerk of court in Asheboro after deputies could not locate Land.
City officials explain the unlikely salt absence on northern High Point streets. A street flusher operator did not account for freezing water during late hours last Thursday. Crews and salt spreads were dispatched to thaw and treat the surfaces.
Greensboro High Point Airport Authority approved a Landrum and Brown contract for basic studies to design a new terminal. Work will start soon with a 60 day data collection phase at about $60,000, aiming for a 1979 first phase opening and 1977 bond financing.
Highway engineers rejected a request to convert two Emerywood Estates entrances off W Lexington Ave Ext to one way traffic. A 25 mph speed limit will be posted on the two roads, with Shadow Valley Drive used for access into Londonderry Estates objected to by residents. The traffic office advised against making SR 173 and SR 1740 one way, urging reduced speed zones and vegetation removal to improve sight distances.
With one day remaining the Cheer Fund is $2,260 short of the $12,000 goal. Receipts from 23 contributors today bring the total to $9,740 as 1,408 needy families await aid for food and toys this Christmas. Readers are urged to make a final gift by Wednesday to boost the drive. Contributions can be mailed or dropped at The Enterprise. anonymous donations were mislisted and should include proper names.
High Point police use a department polygraph since Oct 25 with Detective F E Peters administering tests. The machine records heart rate respiration and skin perspiration to indicate deception after a brief warmup and routine questions.
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