The Ottawa Citizen from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • 17

IS ins 0 -O They 'knew it was going to happen' By Mike McDermott Citizen staff writer i i I'hMfy IIP Vli Sur vying the ureckage Mrs. IVichoIai Zoldners and fire chief Phil Larkin look at what's left of home 4 1 vV er In the wake of area residents' claims that they knew it was going to happen, a city investigating team moved into the rubble of a Cooper Street house this morning to determine why the building crumbled into a 20-foot-deep excavation. The two-storey brick house, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Nicholai Zoldners, 54 Cooper slid into the hole about 3.30 p.m.

Thursday, narrowly missing three workmen in the pit The Zoldners' dog Rover was alone in the house when it broke up and was freed from the rubble 45 minutes later with a slight limp. The house was perched several from the edge of a hole being dug for the foundation of an underground parking garage. Tony Schoenmakers, 18, of Gatineau Point said he was standing with two other men against the excavation wail beneath the house when he heard a rumbling and looked up to see the building sliding toward him. Worker almost hit "I was putting a jack under the wall when I heard this noise. I saw the house coming.

I just ran and everything came down around me." The two other workmen with Schoenmakers also escaped injury. Eighteen-year-old Don Kenword was standing on Cooper Street watching the construction of a high-rise apartment building adjoining the excavation when he heard a rumble and saw a cloud of dust. "It just came down. It just slid down the side of the hole. The walls folded like a deck of cards and it crashed onto the floor of the excavation where the men were working.

They sure got out of there in a hurry." Mrs. Zoldners, who left the house about 2 p.m. to go shopping, returned shortly after the collapse. The woman, whose husband was in Montreal, panicked when told that her collie dog was still in the rubble of the house. When the animal was freed by firemen in the pit, it scrambled up an embankment to Mrs.

Zoldners and was taken to a neighbor's house. Mrs. Zoldners said her husband had been worried about the house since the excavation started in early spring. She said the building shook continual- The a a a S5 lil aSg tr llfji A t-Iig? SI la. Klslfitf? i-filiitl miiliU (--- "i- 3 feS ly from heavy construction machinery working in the pit.

The Zoldners have lived in the house for 10 years. Residents around the construction site were critical of the work which several said "shook buildings a block away." Mrs. Maude Botten, who lives at 56 Cooper beside the Zoldners house, said she is afraid to stay in the house any longer because she no longer thinks it safe. Whole place shakes "I was lying down when it happened, and there was such a crash I didn't know what was happening, I thought I was a goner. You can feel the whole place shake sometimes when they are working in that hole.

"I've been afraid of this happening ever since they started working last spring. Everything just shakes too much. No house can stand that shaking." An 83-year-old man who lives behind the excavation, J. D. Bradley, of Ottawa Citizen On! casualty rescued Workman risks bite and tilling house to rescue dog for owner Mrs.

IVichoIai Zoldners No (earth) stone unturned in publicizing moon trip Citizen-UPI staff phots 35-37 Somerset West, said he expected the house to fall into the hole. "That house has been shaking for several weeks now, so something was bound to happen." Many vibrations Mrs. Evelyne Heany of 111 Cooper said she felt a tremor and saw one side of the building crumble out of sight as she watched from her window several houses west of the pit. Mrs. Heany said she could often feel the vibrations of heavy equipment working in the pit as she stood in her home.

City police and the fire department rushed to the scene as first reports reaching police headquarters listed six peopled killed in the collapse. Police at times were hard-pressed to keep curious spectators away from the weakened ledge beside the house. Ottawa building inspector O. E. Andrew said the rubble would not be cleared until investigations into the collapse are completed.

Scaffold collapse kills one A construction laborer was killed and two others injured when steel scaffolding under the new Wellington Street bridge collapsed Thursday afternoon. Marcel Charlebois. 26, of 19 Cousineau Gatineau Point, was working at the site taking the scaffolding dow-n with a crew of other laborers. The steel supports were about 24 feet high and 40 feet long. As workers removed the structure a brace became jammed between two sections.

A foreman for Deschenes Construction Limited, contractors for the job, ordered Robert Dorey. 19, of S6 Gil-mour St. to climb to the top of the scaffolding and work the brace loose. When he pried the piece loose, the structure collapsed. Only minor injury Mr.

Dorey rode it down and escaped with a minor tendon injury. Serge Gadoua, 16, of Clarence Creek who was working below -the scaffolding with Mr. Charlebois saw it start to come down. He screamed a warning and began to run, but the structure came down across his legs pinning him. He is in satisfactory condition at hospital with a broken ankle.

Police said Mr. Charlebois, the father of four, received a fractured skull when his head was pinned between a support beam and a falling piece of steel. The police department's morality division is in charge of the investigation. soutiwm News service moon as plastoff time approaches. WASHINGTON No stone has The United States space left unturned to publicize man's tion intends to tell the world in nonhistone flight and touch-down on the ute detail every move underway from jT; hJl Jrfy' i.f I I I 4 f.l 1'-'.

July 11, 1969. Page 17 Xfl -itizen-UPI staff photo preparation to the conclusion of this great adventure. Item: NASA has esiablished a new information office in Paris to help feed European hunger for the tiniest tidbits of information about the mission. Item: Renowned painter Andrew Wyeth and others have been commissioned to record scenes of the astronaut depature and return. Item: A government PR man will join the lunar explorers in their 21-day quarantine in Houston after their return to earth, and from inside the quarantine lab he will conduct daily briefings for reporters assembled outside.

One of the space agency's most ticklish public relations decisions thus far has been what symbol of the first landing to leave on the moon. At one point, officials considered burying a time capsule but couldn't agree on anything sufficiently non-controversial to put in it. The final decision: a plaque, the wording okayed by the White House, stating: "We came in peace for all mankind." Then there was the flag flap. NASA wanted to steer clear of any implication the U.S. was claiming sovereignty on the moon and there were proposals that the appropriate flag to plant would be the United Nations flag.

But a group of Congressmen insisted that an American flag, and only an American flag, be implanted on the lunar surface so NASA quickly revised its time schedules to include a raising of the Stars and Stripes. As it now stands, the Apollo crew is going to carry two large American flags to the moon plus the flags of the 50 states, of the District of Columbia and United States territories but only one of the American flags will be raised and left on the moon. The ethers will go to the moon, stay in the lunar module, and come back to earth to become as prized, no doubt, as the lunar rocks and soil samples brought back as well. CP wirephoto isi Hugh Spencers 'giggle' box for executives Creativity goes sandy TORONTO (CP) For $369 and two bags of the sand of your choice the executive sandbox. Furniture designer Hugh Spencer, 41, of Toronto calls his creation 'a giggle" but claims it really is an outlet for bottled-up creativity.

So far, he has sold 30 models. His 42-inch-square, 15-inch-high sandbox can be covered with teak, rosewood or walnut It has fluorescent lights under a black plastic ledge on which proud owners can sit to draw patterns in the sand with hand-made tools or wiggle their toes. Wellington Street bridge scaffold wreckage Marcel Charlebois (inset) died in construction collapse.