A Areseper News February 24, 1980 f Ended in Rundown iiexican hotel SEATTLE (UPI) - The crowd brought wine and roses and let out a cheer when the _ single-engine airplane taxied down the runway, starting the tall blond nurse and the grin- ning, red-bearded handyman on an adventurous two-year tour of the Western Hemisphere. Susan Wallis, 31, and Bill Loveless, 43, gave up their jobs, sublet their homes and sold their possessions. They loaded an airplane with maps, charts and provisions and made plans to visit every nation in North and South America. It was supposed to be the journey of a lifetime. It soured two weeks later in a rundown Mexican motel. The first discovery the two adventurers made was they weren't a very good match. And Ms. Walls, who never travelled outside the United States before, learned she valued the comforts of home more than she realized. Loveless is flying alone now, somewhere in Central never got off the ground America. Ms. Walls has returned to Seattle, is back in a 9-to-5 job at a doctor's office and trying not to think about far away places. “To say I'm disappointed is such an understatement,”. she said. The adventure was conceived last year by Loveless, a former jelly salesman and real _ estate broker who moved to a lakeside cabin and made a living doing odd jobs. Ms. Walls said everything fell apart on their first hop south of the border, to the village of San Felipe in Baja California. “In San Felipe I ex- perienced my first culture shock “I've never seen poverty like that. fm not rich, but I'm accustomed to a low middle-class and this just blew me away.” “Now I need to replace the trip with something else. I don’t know what. Maybe I'll sail to Tahiti.” ,” she said. The ‘midnight credit card’ is dangerous By P ATRICIA Me- CORMACK UPI Health Editor NEW YORK (UPI) - Beware of the “midnight credit card.” Doctors say it can injure the mouth and lead to severe lung damage. Three Air Force dentists explained in the February issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association that a “midnight credit card” is the term for siphoning gasoline by sucking on a tube leading to an automobile gas tank. It often is done illicitly after dark, hence the “midnight.” The practice occurs frequently enough to cause the dentists to urge other health professionals to consider gasoline as a possible source of irritation when diagnosing patients with oral wounds. They said to the inside tissues of the mouth can also be caused by various drugs and chemical agents in- cluding aspirin placed on the gum tissue to relieve a toothache. But they said gasoline is an increasing danger because of its shortages and rising prices. “Fighting the fuel shortage by siphoning of gasoline — sometimes called use of the ‘midnight credit card’ — should be discouraged not only because of the legal implications but because it causes injuries to the mouth,” the dentists’ report said. Health specialists also warn that inhalation = of gasoline fumes’ while siphoning could harm the lungs. Dr. Lewis B. Clayton, medical affairs director of sthe American Lung Association, said inhalation of gasoline can lead to your best choice ... chemical pneumonia which is severe and very difficult to treat. On gasoline siphoning injuries, they cited a case involving a man, 43, suf- fering from smali lumps and swelling on the roof of the mouth. The Air Force dentists said “it is not unusual for the siphoner to accidentally aspirate gasoline.” ° “Possible consequences of this practice,” they said, “range from minor local irritation to aspiration with subsequent serious pulmonary implications.” environment AFTER CHRISTMAS SINKING ‘Spill legacy left | by: Lee Wang Zin KETCHIKAN, Alaska (UPC) - More than 19,060 gallons of oil have been shovelled off Alaskan beaches in the two months since the ore freighter Lee Wang Zin capsized in stormy seas Christmas Day, killing all 30 crewmen, a Coast Guard spokesman said Thursday. Chief Warrant Officer Blaine Jensen said clean-up operations, which were all but finished, had cost about $1.5 million. The United States government would attempt to recover costs from the ships owners, he said. 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