2—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, April 29, 1987 Hotel collapse death toll raised to 17 By BRENT LAYMON Associated Press Writer BRIDGEPORT, Conn. Cold rain and the discovery of buried hazard ous materials hampered rescue workers in their search yesterday for 11 men missing in the ruins of a collapsed apartment building. The body of Herbert Goeldner, 37, of 'South Hadley, Mass., was pulled from the rubble of the L’Ambiance Plaza project body shortly before 1 p.m., raising the official death toll to 17. Rescue workers burrowing into the mass of shattered concrete and man gled steel had said they found pockets with enough air circulating in them to sustain life, but hopes were as clouded as the skies. “One void went down quite a way. We felt the condition was too danger ous tc put anyone in there,” said Jonathan Best, the city’s director of emergency management. “We looked around with a camera. We haven’t seen anything.” Mayor Thomas Bucci had said that the search for possible survivors would continue until Saturday. Yes terday, however, he said officials won’t set a deadline. “There have been survivors in oth er catastrophes when all hope seemed to be gone and a survivor has been found. So we’re grasping at that bit of hope, that there is some individ ual still down there who has survived this catastrope,” Bucci said. No one has been pulled alive from the wreckage since the concrete slabs fell from a height of six stories Thurs day, trapping 28 men. Funerals for three victims were held yesterday, and two more were planned for today. Dr. Wayne H. Carver, deputy state medical examiner, said autopsies have shown workers died from mas sive physical injuries or compression of the chest so breathing is quickly stopped. “All the information that has been assembled so far indicates death was very rapid in each case,” Carver said., Investigations into the cause of the collapse are expected to center on the conditions of soil beneath the struc ture, the complicated construction process called “lift-slab,” and other factors such as weather conditions during the pouring of the building’s concrete slab floors. These slabs are poured at ground level in a stack and then raised into place by'hydraulic lifters set onto the Rescue workers use a crane-carried platform to lift a body from the remains of the collapse of a building under construction in Bridgeport, Conn. support columns. The process of hoisting these floors into place re quires great precision, because if part of the slab is raised faster than another section, it could pull the support columns down. Salvage crews Monday recovered a power unit that supplies hydraulic fluid to the jacks and controls the lifting process. David Wonder, an engineer with the Texstar Construction Corp. of San Antonio, Texas, the subcontractor that handled the hoisting-of the slabs, /Wv said there was little chance the col lapse was the result of the lifting operation. The developer of the L’Ambiance Plaza said the ground at the site was solid enough to support the building and rock had to be blasted out. William F. Lone, executive vice president of Delwood Development of Davie, Fla., was responding to re ports on file in City Hall that de scribed the ground at the site as “broken rock and earth in a loose state.” , * ■X “We dynamited for 30 days in rock to prepare the site,” Lone said. Frank Zamecnik, a structural engi neer retained by The Associated Press to review the records, said such blasting may have gone too deep. He questioned whether broken rock and earth could support the weight cited in the design drawings. Carpenters at the fenced-in site erected shelters of wood and plastic sheets around Salvation Army mobile canteens and the rescue command post. notes • The Undergraduate Student Government’s Academic Assembly will meet at 7 tonight in 307 HUB. • The Anthropology Promotion and Enrichment Sodality will meet at 7:35 tonight in 107 Carpenter. • The Penn State Writers Club will meet at 8 tonight in 203 Willard. • The Committee For Justice In South Africa will hold a vigil at noon today on the steps of Old Main for those who have died in the struggle against apartheid. The committee will also- hold a candlelight vigil for South African railroad workers at 9 tonight on the Old Main steps. • The Returning Adult Student Center will sponsor a brown bag lunch on managing stress at noon today in 102 Boucke. ® The Order Of Omega will meet at 9 tonight in the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority suite in Wolf Hall. • The Nittany Chemical Society will meet at 6:30 tonight in 151 Davey Lab. Ronnie waiting for 4th liver PITTSBURGH (AP) - A despera tely ill Ronnie DeSillers, who under went three unsuccessful liver transplants, was “holding his own” yesterday as the search continued for a fourth donor liver, hospital officials said. “Doctors are still hopeful an organ will become available. And when it does ... they’re still optimistic right now that they can do” the operation, said Sue Cardillo, a spokeswoman at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. “Ronnie is just a very strong little boy. He’s holding his own right now. Doctors are still calling his need urgent,” she said. The 7-year-old, whose continuing battle for liver transplants drew na tionwide support, was in critical con dition in the hospital’s intensive care unit and was on a respirator, Cardillo said. He was becoming increasingly jaundiced as the hours passed with out a properly operating liver and he also was swollen, which hospital offi cials said could be due to his medica tion. PIP CAN DOIT! RESUMES • FLYERS • TICKETS BUSINESS CARDS • TYPESETTING 444 E, College Ave. 234-6616 /y V Penn State enters the travel business By CHRISTINE BELLUOMINI Collegian Staff Writer Travel and tourism, Pennsylvania’s second largest industry, has arrived at University Park. The Center for Travel and Tourism Research at Penn State celebrated its grand opening last Wednesday in Rec Hall, the center’s location. A study conducted by the department of recre ation and parks and the College of Business Administration concluded that tourism is a rapidly growing industry with economic, social, cultural and environmental aspects. In addition, many University research projects have been conducted on tourism recently. Because of this, center Director Richard A. Gitelson said, a “systematic effort” by those doing tourism research would be a success. “The whole University is involved,” he said. Near collisions now commonplace WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) The head of the National Transportation Safety Board expressed alarm that near-collisions involving commercial jetliners are becoming commonplace after four more such incidents in one day came to light yesterday. ing reached the summer period,” In an interview with The Asso- said Burnett, suggesting that the gov ciated Press, NTSB Chairman Jim ernment “level out the peaks and Burnett called on the Federal Avi- valleys” of airline activity, ation Administration to make “a FAA Administrator Donald Engen, more realistic assessment” on how speaking through a spokesman, re- many flights air traffic controllers jected suggestions that any new re- • A Continental DC-9 reported lev are capable of handling. strictions are needed. eling off to keep an unidentified Piper He said the number of flights dur- Meanwhile, it was disclosed that aircraft “in sight as they passed ing peak periods and, in busy airspace pilots of three commercial jetliners within several hundred feet” at 3,000 police log • A $5OO bike was reported missing glass door pane Monday at West Penn Monday from a chain-link fence at Power -Co., 2800 E. College Ave., Hamilton Hall by Bradford Mason, 6 causing $2OO damage, State College Hamilton, University Police Services police said, said. • A $370 mountain bike was report- damage to a University vehicle in ed missing Monday by Dean Gekas, Parking Lot Brown A Monday, Uni -780 Bellaire Ave., the State College versity police said. Bureau of Police Services said. • A $lOO “Road Closed” sign was • Unknown persons cracked a ' reported missing from the corner of * _ & DAEDALUS ill EDUCATION SERVICES MWTMMBT. HMTMTOVN.M «N - CALL o|/r 215-449-6311 keep up with sports in The Daily Collegian The center will also serve as a source of data on tourism and travel in Pennsylvania as well as the rest of the world. The center’s research includes studies of tou rism promotion, evaluation of tourism marketing campaigns, and analysis of the economic, cultu ral, social and environmental impacts of tourism. Still in its initial stages, the center’s primary customers are the state and tourist promotion agents. “It is a slow process,” Gitelson said, but with some hard work he believes it has the poten tial to expand. . Eventually, he" hopes this expansion would in clude doing international research and having customers from around the world. The center now employs Gitelson and a graduate student. However, it will draw upon people from around the University because of the broad range of subject matter involved, Gitelson said, adding should be cut back by the FAA to increase the margin of safety, espe cially during this summer’s busy travel season. “In my view we’re already in a situation of concern even before hav • Unknown persons caused $2OO Alpha Kappa Psi Professional Business Fraternity presents Manager of Baby’s Burgers ’n Shakes speaking on “Entrepreneurship” Tonight At 7 p.m. in 305 HUB All Majors Welcome! reported incidents last Saturday in which their planes came within 500 feet of unknown smaller aircraft. Another pilot reported an incident with a military plane that came with in 1,500 feet. ' The incidents — confirmed by the FAA were: • Near Fort Meyers, Fla. the pilot of an American Boeing 727 reported an unknown glider passing within about 300 feet. East Fairmount Avenue and Frater- • Unknown persons damaged the nity Row Monday by C&W Construe- top of a convertible owned by Shawn tion of Bellefonte, State College police Gill, 304 Packer, while the car was in said. Parking Lot 83 North Monday, Uni- • Thirty-four gallons of gasoline were reported missing from the gas tank of a truck owned by the State College Area Water Authority while the truck was parked at 1201 W. Branch Road Monday, State Col lege police said. • French Manicure M MWT InpT 5 • Nail Art * Pedicure foi men and women • Color Analysis ? Skin Care • Gift certificates available • Nail Wraps 1524 West College Aye. 814-234-2065 Easy Access-Take the F bus to Blue Golf Course stop. We Specialize in Jessica Products® that using faculty members’ skills is important. From an academic standpoint, the center will offer some, but not many, opportunities for under graduates. “By and large it will focus on graduate students doing research work,” said Frank B. Guadagnolo, acting chair of the recreation and parks depart ment. He did not know whether a major in tourism will be offered. The center has conferences and seminars planned, and has put together the Directory of Tourism Scholars, which helps identify the mem bers of the University faculty who have expertise related to tourism and travel. Penn State is not the first university to open such a unit. Michigan State University, Clemson Uni versity and the Rochester Institute of Technology are some universities that have similar research centers. in the sky feet near San Jose, Calif. • An Air California Boeing 737 which pulled up to avoid an unidenti fied Cessna aircraft “several hun dred feet” below over Santa Monica, Calif. • An Ozark DC-9 reported a mili tary jet passing a quarter mile away and “200 to 300 feet” near Des Moines, lowa. It was the third time in less than a month that at least three near-colli sion reports were filed in one day by the pilots of commercial pirliners. 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