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...Five weeks ago, it was no more than another valley lot. Now the Oddstad School stood ready for its pupils: an odd combination of eleven standard one-story houses linked by a breezeway, with interiors converted into light, airy classrooms, the kitchen in one serving as a teachers' lunchroom. Last week there was work yet to be done; carpenters were still nailing on roof shingles; there was no electricity; the kindergarten's blocks had not arrived. But months ahead of schedule, Linda Mar's children had their own school-thanks to the joint enterprise of a builder...
Waitress' Day. In Kenosha, Wis., when Milton Hall, 23, entered her lunchroom and threatened her with a pistol, Waitress Margaret Gresham talked him into pocketing the weapon, treated him to a cup of coffee, then called the police, who promptly came and arrested...
Cedar Hill delegates also recommended that Radcliffe's Health Center establish visiting hours of one hour daily, and that the lunchroom at Agassiz be run more efficiently...
...paint some intriguing characters killing time in a quick-lunch room. But Harvey never really ekes a story out of it. Even one of the most interesting characters, a drunk named Bearpaw, whose hands are just fleshy stumps, never gets into the plot. The author leaves him outside the lunchroom, pounding in the window to get in. Quotation marks, used in other stories, would have helped "Juke Box" a great deal...
...principal of a school in Columbia County complained: "We can't seem to get rid of the rats." In an Irwin County school's auditorium, desks had been turned over to make a bin to store the school's lunchroom potatoes ("The only place we have," said the principal...