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Tht* Red and Black. Thursday. September 22. 1977
Athens food co-op stays with the naturals
By JOEL Rl'KKE
Staff writer
People’s Foods, a co-op store
of 300 members, sells natural
and organic foods at the lowest
rates possible, according to
Chervl Fraracci. a member of
the co-op
"Some of our items are more
and some are less expensive
than what is available in retail
stores. We charge simply what
the item costs us and the over
head involved. I’m not familiar
with the marketing procedures
of retail stores." she said
"The difference between
natural and organic foods is
that natural foods have not
been processed or changed,
whereas organic foods also
have had no pesticides or
chemicals on them. We try to
get organic foods as often as
possible.’’ she explained
The store is located at 365
Prince Ave and is open from
12 p.m to 8 p.m. Tuesday
through Friday. 2 p.m. to 8
p.m Monday, and from 9 a m.
to 6 n.m Saturday.
Members pay a $7.50 lifetime
membership fee upon joining
with a dollar added for an
additional spouse or child.
Fraracci said. Members who
work three hours a month get
an eight per cent discount on
all purchases.
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By JULIE KUHR
Production manager
There’s no mistaking the
house. A square, black sign
with orange letters marks the
door: "Chair Caning.”
Ar.d if that's not enough, half
of the tiny porch is filled with
old wooden rockers, straight
chairs and other caning
projects in various stages of
completion.
The Rev. and Mrs. Nathaniel
Mitchell, an elderly blind
couple use their combination
porch and workshop at 115-B
Country Club Place to weave
the bamboo cane through just
about any type of furniture
that people bring by.
The tools of their trade—just
a screwdriver, scissors, and an
ice pick—lie on a table near
the kitchen.
Mrs. Mitchell is in the
process of finishing up a small
straight chair for her own use.
The adage about the shoema
ker going barefoot is not true
around the Mitchell house, she
explained.
She is finishing the back of
the chair in "open work,” the
most commonly used weave in
cane work. She first dips each
long strand of cane in a large
drum of water so that it will
bend easily to prevent break
age. Then she wraps it through
the other strands of cane
already on the chair untill she
has to "tie off.”
Her husband’s current pro
ject is a "net work” chair,
strands of very thin cane
woven into an intricate pat
tern. As he finishes weaving
each row in the pattern, he
plugs the cane into a small
hole at the end of the row with
a wooden peg. This, he said,
pulls the row taut and enables
him to mark his progress.
Rev. Mitchell was bom in
Wilkes County, but has lived
most of his life in Athens. Mrs.
Mitchell was born near Dublin.
They both attended an acade
my for the blind in Macon,
where he learned caning and
she learned music, along with
their other studies.
Mrs. Mitchell is an avid
reader; she has subscriptions
to a number of braille religious
magazines.
If asked, she will demon
strate her talent on the piano,
using a braille music book.
When she wants to learn a
new song, she scans the braille
musical score with her left
hand, while tapping and
counting the beat and playing
the melody with her right
hand.
Then she plays the song
through and harmonizes with
her husband’s singing.
"He taught me how to cane
and I taught him how to sing,"
she said.
Mrs. Mitchell said that her
Photo by GEORGE SICAY
BLIND REVEREND CANES CHAIRS
It beats sitting on your hands
husband had "picked her out”
to be his wife when she was 10
years old. “When I was 10, he
came telling the boys I would
be his wife,” she said.
"My teacher and matron
predicted my husband and
me—I don’t know what made
her think so.”
The two finished school in
Macon and returned to their
homes, but they didn’t stop
thinking about each other.
Rev. Mitchell said at that time
he would think "Lord, if it’s
your will, let me hear from
her.” And he soon did.
She wrote him a letter telling
where she was living, and
friends persuaded him to go
visit her at Christmas. In July,
1936, they were married.
"This was his home—I didn’t
want to come, but after I did,
the people were so nice that
I’ve been here ever since,"
Mrs. Mitchell said. ”1 was sick
this May, and 1 didn’t know I
had that many friends.”
“Clarke is a fine county,”
Rev. Mitchell added.
Rev. Mitchell remembers
Athens when Broad Street was
a dirt road and Athens General
Hospital was just a couple of
rooms. He can tell by your
voice if you are from Clarke
County or some other part of
the state. If two people stand
in front of him and say a* «
phrase or two, he can say who
is taller.
The couple had a son, born in
1944. "He was smart as a «
cricket,” Mrs. Mitchell said.
He was graduated from high
school in 1961, attended college
and worked in electronics in
the armed forces.
He died at 27, "got tied up
with that alcoholic stuff," Rev
Mitchell said. But the Mitchells
visit with their two grandchild
ren as often as possible.
Some students from a local
rehabilitation center for the
blind used to come by the
Mitchells' house to learn
caning, but they "just dropped
off," Rev. Mitchell said. “One
lady learned—she was doing
fine—though she didn’t stay
long enough.”
"Another had a little baby
and stopped coming. I hated to
see it, too,” Mrs. Mitchell said.
The money the couple earns
caning helps support them and
allows them to donate to
church and Sunday School
collections.
Also, Mrs. Mitchell said, "I
just don't like sitting holding
my hands.”
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By SUSAN JORDAN
The Gilbert Health Center, located on the
corner of South Lumpkin Street and Hearty
Drive deep in the recesses of North Campus,
offers a great deal of services to students.
Except for the initial $28 health fee included in
tuition, all services performed at the facility to
date are free to full-time students.
And although 18,166 students made at least
one trip to Health Services last year, its
procedures are still not always understood by
many students.
For those who are not familiar with the
infirmary and its procedures, the blue card, the
two 8 x 11‘A inch printed forms that the student
is asked to fill out, and the question "Do you
need a parking slip for your car?" should be
explained.
When a student first walks in at the main
desk, he will be asked about his car. If he has
one on the lot he should obtain a permit for it.
As many as 20 to 26 cars are ticketed daily on
the 30 parking spaces at Health Services The
tickets are $10 for each offense, and the lot is
classified as a tow away zone. Rarely are cars
towed ionly when blocking the lot), but that is
an additional fee of $10.
Next the student will be handed the blue card
and the two white forms, one of which j
time-dated Normally this is not time
consuming, because the forms are simple and
routine, and most information can be circled.
But if there are many patienla ahead of the
student, if it is his first visit, or is he has not
visited Health Services for several years he
can expect to spend up to 10 minutes waiting
while the staff makes or locates his chart.
To avoid the rush to the infirmary, according
to the desk personnel, the best time not to come
is to a m , especially on Mondays, or during the
break between classes These times seem to be
the heaviest in patient load.
The staff does try to take students on a
first-come, first-served basis (the time-dated
form helps), but students with appointments
have priority over walk-ins.
New students’ charts are not assembled until
they come to Health Services for the first time.
Staffers will have to color rode the individual's
tile according to ms social security number and
pull his medical history record from a stack
which contains all returned histones of newly
accepted students
Charts of graduates, drop-outs, and students
who have not used Health Services for quite
some time are pulled from the main slack once
a year to provide space lor new files. They are
stored for five years, then microfilmed and
kept for another 20 years. So students in this
category can expect to wait while their chart is
located or a temporary one made.
Of the three forms, the patient first fills out
the blue card which is called an outguide He
signs and writes his social security number on
it; the staff then locates his chart and puts the
outguide into the master files to mark the
location of the student's chart.
Not only does it aid as a signal that the
specific chart is out, but it also helps to speed
the returning of charts to their proper
locations.
The student is asked to fill out the upper
portions of each of the other two forms. Both
forms are then put in the student's chart and
will be completed by the attending physician or
nurse practitioner.
One form is an assessment of the patient’s
problem, subjectively and objectively, and it
becomes a permanent part of the student’s
medical file.
On it the patient writes his name, social
security number, reason for visit, sex. age, and
phone number. Part of the information is used
by the triage (the T) and physician in
determining a treatment and diagnosis.
The phone number, a seemingly unessential
item for a medical form, ia necessary because
occasionally unforeseen problems which
require special treatment occur (i.e. strep
throat l, and Health Services needs to know
where to locate the student as fast as possible
The other form which questions the patient
about his visit (i.e. walk-in or appointment,
undergraduate or graduate, hour of visit, etc.)
is used for gathering sutiatical data. After the
doctor completes it, it is sent to data
processing
The information offers a means of measuring
the effectiveness o! Health Services and
according to Kathleen Sheridan, the transcrip
lionist of Health Services, "it initially helps to
improve services to students by indicating
what areas need the most attention and
funding.”
An example is the differences between the
physical and mental health staffs Physical
health had 71,000 more patient visits than did
mental health in the 1975-76 fiscal year So
naturally more will go towards funding the
physical health staff and department