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Page 6 THE BATTALION MONDAY, JUNE 13. 1977 TOO HOT IN THE KITCHEN??! LET US DO THE COOKING AT (2 1 /2 MILES WEST ON UNIVERSITY DRIVE) LUNCH FROM 11:30-2 TUES.-FRI. FISH • CHICKEN • CHICKEN FRIED STEAK • FLOUNDER FILET 1 99 WEEKDAYS 5-9 P.M. AND WEEKENDS 11:30 A.M.-9 P.M. — IT’S ALL YOU CAN EAT* CHICKEN AND FISH. ONLY $3 29 PERSON 'FEATURING HOMEMADE ROLLS, WHIPPED BUTTER, HONEY, HUSH PUPPIES, FRENCH FRIES, PINTO BEANS AND COLD SLAW SERVED BY THE FRIENDLIEST WAITRESSES IN TOWN. TRY US — AND WE KNOW YOU'LL LIKE USI! 693-6483. ‘Sheila’ finally wins court battle United Press International SEATTLE — The case — and story — of Sheila is today among the best known of those involving civil commitment to psychiatric institu tions. Her freedom to live a life which others find unacceptable was, until recently, threatened. But she has finally won her court battle to work it out for herself. Controversy over the law has died down in the two years since newspaper articles reported Sheila living in her car and eating castoff food. But the 34-year-old former ac countant won an unprecedented court battle which challenged the right of an individual to refuse psychiatric treatment. 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As guardian, she persuaded King County Superior Court Judge Frank Roberts to commit her only child “voluntarily” to a private mental hospital for 30 days to determine whetber Sheila’s “choice of lifestyle is made freely, knowingly and intel ligently or whether it is the product of some degree of mental incapac- ity-” “I don’t agree with my guardian,” Sheila said in an interview. “It’s a family problem.” Judge Roberts’ order was ap pealed by Sheila’s court-appointed attorneys, who argued that it is a direct violation of the intent of the four-year-old involuntary treatment act. The state court of appeals agreed. King County courts have twice previously found Sheila not com- mitable under the definition of the Civil Commitment Law. It allows the state to commit for psychiatric treatment only those persons con sidered dangerous to themselves or others, or so mentally disabled that they fail to provide for their essen tial human needs and as a result are in danger of serious physical harm. Sheila is living now at a charity- run hotel for women which she can afford now that her mother applied for Supplemental Security' Income for her. Sheila became a public figure after she was evicted from her apartment more than two years ago. She and her mother do not get along. She moved with her belong ings into her old car, which she parked on her neighborhood street, several doors down from her mother’s house. Without funds she salvaged un saleable food from grocery store garbage bins. She used the toilet facilities of a nearby service station or a friend’s house. She wore sev eral layers of warm, protective clo thing on warm days. She did other things which seemed strange to others. For much of the past two years, after her car was towed away, Sheila lived in the open, sleeping on the ground, in a packing crate, in a tent in a neighbor’s yard, eating castoff food, and sitting on park benches having “chit-chats” with people. This way of life was disturbing to the mother, who argued that before Sheila changed she was “absolutely a model citizen and a good girl, . . . quick, neat and sharp mentally.” “Whoever thought of my daugh ter ever ending up eating garbage down in the middle of the city,” she was quoted as saying in her attor ney’s brief. Dora’s unsuccessful efforts to have Sheila committed to a mental institution throughout 1975 were detailed in a series of newspaper ar ticles which described Sheila’s “un sanitary lifestyle” and “bizarre be havior.” Her name was changed to “Sarah” in the articles “for her own protection.” She prefers to be called by her own name. In addition to the argument that Sheila’s lifestyle was indecent. pathetic, and unhealthy and that she was disturbed and different from what she used to be, the mother’s attorney argued Sheila was unhappy with her way of life, that she believed it to be a matter of sur vival and necessity, without alterna tives. She is a small woman and, like her mother, attractive and charm ing. She smiles often and warmly. Her manner is even and gracious. She is direct, attentive and healthy- looking. The clothes she wore during two interviews in the lobby of her residence-hotel were still heavy and protective but coordinated — a new, purple winter coat, matching purple pants, purple shirt and warm cap. purple knitted lipstick. “Hospitals can’t do any you,” said Sheila, who hast several. “It’s the doldrums, sittingai reading magazines for yearsoJ The mental stimulus isnfW “And being idle, I don’t H three meals a day. I don’ll fatty meals in an institution ] good now. “Psychiatrists give you don’t need and you have a read It causes more problems that] really there at the outset. “One has to work it out fori selves — keep your immunity, away from them.” Poisonous lunch get good respom )AILY 2:15,4:10, 6:05,8:00 & 9:55 H imm m i ■ i ^ H Unfinished Furniture Center Do It Yourself & Save “Free Stain Classes” 314 N. Main "Downtown’’ Bryan 822-7052 Jftbblcr’sj teen Gene Wilder [Marty Feldr (Madeline Kahnj ^ tlOLMES’ Battalion Classified Call 845-2611 YOU COULDN'T ASK “ FOR A FUNNIER PICTURE! n n 111IT1I ITT rrrm FOR FATHER'S DAY GIFT GIVING . . . PIPES — CUSTOM BLENDED TOBACCO — CIGARS I United Press International CHICAGO — Richard Hall always gets a great response whenl( serves a poisonous lunch. That’s because all the toxins on the table are hidden in theso-calM natural foods and missing from the processed items. For Hall, vice-president for science and technology at McConnid & Co., it’s a lesson on perspective. “The idea came up several years ago, ” he said of his lunches, “People at various times have said, ‘What if we tested allfoodsllt way we test some things?’ This is just a logical extension of thatsat naive question. ” His luncheons include a slide show and speech, in which the high levels of arsenic in the shrimp, carcinogens in the ham, a] other dangers in the diet. One by one. Hall shows that potentially harmful toxins existii every item served at the luncheon and warns that too muchofam thing can be harmful. Almost none of the foods, he tells his guests, would pass goveu ment safety requirements if introduced as additives. The bread, processed item, is the only item other than hearts of palm that passe inspection on Hall’s menu “A lot of people and, to a certain extent, our government, tendts pay an inordinate amount of attention to the wrong things,” he said a recent speech. “There are risks associated with food, as therea with everything else in our lives.” We also carry imported cigarettes: DUNHILL, BALKAN SOBRANIE & SHERMAN I I Hall said people pay the most attention to the smallest dangersaul r on y j the biggest food related threat to health comes from microbes. Nat j r USS( in order, he said, are nutritional deficiencies, environmental contau inants, natural toxicants such as poisonous mushrooms, pesticide® idue and food additives. People worry about additives which can only be dangerous inei jj ron f tremely concentrated form. 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During his demonstrations. Hall assures his audience that b n poisonous lunch won’t be fatal — all the foods are “nutritious a safe, in balanced amounts.” Hall doesn’t call for the end to government regulation or dismis] safety testing as superfluous, but calls for a more reasoned appn in studying and weighing the relative dangers in different foods additives. Although most foods contain some dangerous ingredients, Hi! said sanitation, variety and moderation in diet reduce risks substai tially. mer ti mber ( roved sity Sy; ’aming er tn Board n Alum wed by nts last Frazier ty meml 1965. I rleton, state unships. A meml ams hin raziervif e 1918 onship t In 1975 istinguis YOU MAY NEVER NEED SMALLPOX VACCINATION. THANKS TO THE UN. One less needle for mankind. One more UN program helping people everywhere. Smallpox has been virtually wiped out throughout the world. Thanks to the UN’s World Health Organization. Like to know what else you didn’t know the UN is doing for you? 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