McAdoo Opening

On the teaching staff of coal-mining McAdoo, Pa.'s public schools are 13 positions. When opening day arrived last week 26 teachers were on hand to fill them. Thirteen Republican appointees huddled defiantly inside the high-school building. Thirteen Democratic appointees, who claimed dirty work at the last school board election, hammered and shrilled to be let in. Idle miners trotted up grinning, heaved rocks, bricks, clods, milk bottles. After half an hour twelve Republicans marched out, carrying Colleague No. 13 to the hospital. Officially closed to pupils, McAdoo's high school lay open to every breeze.

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