Niagara Falls Review from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada • 13

Growth of ihedtre chain 1 IV Injured tourist Local sealed in enve to analysis labo was i the gas left in the tanks One reason imtmiijmiiiiiiHmimimfiiiitiiitiiniiniiiriiiiiiiititmiitmmtiiiimntiiiHiiuiiHiniiiiiiiiniritiiiitiitniiiiHiiiiitiinniiiiiittHitinwtmiitiHiiiiiitiHuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiu I MWtaWel appeals dismissal i ENROLMENT HIGHEST Loretto High School 1976 77 enrolment of about 300 stu dents is the highest in its 115 year history' Joe Megannety Niagara alls trustee with the Well a side world What has always intrigued him is how people react in theatres releasing their pent up emotions through identi fication with the stars on the silver screen He believes a thera peutic value to it all we have movies be a lot more aggres sion in our ing of the brain Her condition deteriorated and he transferred her to McMaster Medical Centre He said injury cotdd have been caused by a series of karate drops to the head or one blow with a blunt object Dr Murray said the injury could not have been caused by Jailing off the toilet which was the first story Martin told police He later said he lost his cool and cers testified be overheard a conversation en route be tween the two accused about getting caught with drugs At the same time he said he ob served Mr Coughlin moving about on the back seat of the cruiser On arrival at the notice sta tion Mr Coughlin and Miss Antie were accompanied into the station by one of the offi cers while the other exam ined the rear seat area of the cruiser It was then that a plastic bag containing 23 grams of a substance be lieved to be marijuana was found stuffed under the back of the car seat Both of the accused denied any knowledge of the pack age but they were charged with possession of a drug Dr oster listed bruises to most parts of the body that he found during the au topsy and one which was not seen by any other doctor be cause of the hair The pathologist found mas sive bruising to the top of the head extending to the fore head and extensive hemorr haging He also found a blood clot in the brain: Dr oster said the cause of death was multiple con tusions to the head and depr ivation of oxygen to the brain caused by swelling He said the only bruising which really bothered him was that on the top of Christ head He said it was al most impossible to receivethat kind of injury in a fall Patricia the' mother testified she started going out with Martin in January of this year She said she lived in Niagara alls NY and stayed over night at the house sometimes while the accused was work ing and got his two children off to school in the mornings She said that on eb 26 Christina was restless pale and crying She said two days previously the girl had run into a doorpost After Dr Murray told her Christina had been hit over the bead she went to Martin and talked to him for three or four hours but could not get an explanation from him All he said was that he found the girl lying on the bath room floor School Board made the an nouncement to the board Wednesday He said an exact figure couldn't be given because the baord is still in the process of compiling enrolment totals of schools in their system The 1975 76 enrolment 250 shopping plazas Mr Zahorchak said its could have caused the injury but be felt it was unlikely rw William oldman a ne? specialist at McMaster said Christina was on a respirator when she was brought in He took steps to reduce the brain swelling but to no avail After 24 hours he did a 'brain wave test which showed the brain was dead: He spoke to the parents who wanted to wait a little longer After another 24 hours he carried out all the definitions of death recom mended by the Canadian Me dical Association and the World Health Organization and they revealed the girl was dead With the per mission of the parents he turned off the respirator one level with another one above it Instead of two ci nemas side by side the way most twin cinemas are being A 52 year old American vis itor was severely injured Wednesday when she walked intothe side of a can in Queen Victoria Park near the Refectory Edith Walsh of Cranston RI was listed today in serious condition with heffd injuries at Memorial Medical Centre Niagara alls NY She was admitted initially to Greater Niagara General Hospital and later transferred i across the border I Niagara Parks police said I Lome Bubar of 5721 Highland Ave was driving north through the park shortly af ter 6 pm when he saw some pedestrians start across the road He sounded his horn but Mrs Walsh continued on and hit the passenger side of the car Now that Canadian Theatres Group has 10 screens in the Niagara area Mr Zahorchak says the com pany can initiate TV ad cam paigns to plug the theatres The company is building three more theatres on the Niagara Square site with opening projected for August 1977 It is closing Princess Theatre on Main Street and offering it for sale cold Stone Road at the CNR crossing the scene of numer ous accidents and fatalities the accidents had there we have to do something Mr Eidt said 1 One consideration the region had for the area was an but Mr Eldt said the region has now tied it down to an underpass One design would require acquisition of most of the San der Oil propertyand another design only la small portion of the property Mr Eldt said i He said that no date has been set fop construction of the underpass but the underpass is considered a short term project and high on the priority i When the underpass is built Thorold Stone Road will begin to drop at Siimicks Street and level out at Stanley Avenue A pathologist told an On which included special skull tario Supreme Court jury In rays showed difuse swell Wclland Wednesday mat ne found bruises all over the body of three year old Christ ina Newell including some on her head which contrib uted to her deaths Dr Herbert oster direc tor of forensic pathology at Hamilton General Hospital was testifying during the third day of the trial of John Martin 35 of Niagara alls who was charged with second degree murder in the child's death i Previous wltfiieSSer testified slapped her live or six times" Christina was unconscious Dr' Murray said a severe and not breathing when she slap exerted with all the was picked up by ambulance strength of an adult male were caned oy ine accuseo She was taken to Greater Niagara General Hospital then transferred to Hamilton General and then to McMaster Medical Centre where she died March Dr James Murray chief of neurosurgery at Brant Me morial Hospital Hamilton testified earlier Wednesday that when he examined the girl eb 26 at Hamilton Gen eral he found 15 to 20'small bruises on her left thigk and numerous other bruises all over her body Most of the in cluding one in her right ar? mpit appeared to be several days old but one bruise on her left cheek was no more than 12 hourt old' His examination of her Idling officers duQ law stipulates tnat tne oe special locker in fendants be informed that the crown mtenus use uuu a certificate During testimony and pre sentation of exhibits by Sgt Crown defence lawyer George Barycky objected on the grounds tha the number on the of analysis match (he number written on the notice to the accused informing them the certificate would be used Lawyer Al McBain acting as special Crown prosecutor then said the Crown could of fer no further evidence and Judge Johnstone Roberts promptly dismissed the charges i for closing the station is the effect a planned underpass on Thorold Stone Road will have on the business Niagara alls Review THURSDAY OCTOBER 7 W76 vi i approved at school The Welland County Roman Catholic Separate School Board approved construction 'of a portable classroom to re lieve qvercrowaing ai vaiuui al Newman School in Niagara alls The four room school origi nally built to accommodate about 110 pupils has 211 at tending for the 1976 77 school year The portable classroom I neca lent itself to that style plants which are becoming bl built at the Kimbark Ave The original theatre a souu building was built in 1939 and opened in 1940 The cinema on the first floor or street level has 540 seats while the upstairs has The nrwtaira cinema Mr publicity stand in front of their new niaMVtAfl Aft Aibaah COS more iS to reno (Review photo by GordCounsell) like Niagara alls was me people win sun gu me clearance of films A dis movies because theatres are tributor make pic intimate places divorced tures available to small town from the problems of the out theatres until uiey naa runs in the larger cities like To ronto There was a time too when distributors waited until films had a run in Niagara alls NY before releasing them for showing in Toronto But all that is changing Mr Zahorchak said It been all that easy for the Canadian Theatres Group during what Mr Zahorchak calls the during the late 1950s and early 1960s when people still enamored with TV stayed away in droves from the theatres The company and other theatre chains weathered that storm as better films rnado fhpir annearance along with stunning technological and Roman Catholic Separate innovations sucn as aen suround and Cinemascope Mr Zahorchak feels the mnuin indnatrv will AlwaVH llivviv the theatres because of in novations in the future years Even if television makes technological The decision on an appeal S' a former constable of etro Niaeara nolice has been postponed by the On tario oitce uommission inToronto Inspector 'Mel riesen of regional police said Wednes day a decision will likely be rendered within a week to 10 days by the commission on an appeal by Walter Turn er of St Catharines i Turner and another man probationary constable John Roslaniec were dismissed from the force for dis creditable conduct for their part in an incident May 15 which took on erry Street in Niagara alls Charges were laid under the Police Ad after citizens complained of harassment The policemen off duty at the time and a civilian were harassing people on erry Street by searching them in dicating they were under cover police Cardinal Newman enrol ment has swelled with the de velonment of new housing in the Hodgson Avenue Pitton nUdU anu Wivmivw aMM areas The school also is tak ing some kindergarten pupils formerly bused to Thomas More Separate ctosing Sawier Oil has closed Its Thorold School 1 qinn n4 ffa station after 28 years in business ne new portable II be in jU00 npere rnree weeto to mU The package was tagged by the certificate of analysis the the investigating officers and' law stipulates that the de nlaced in a side the police station The paciage was then pro cessed and lopes by iSgt Ray Crown who sent it to analysis labo ratories in Scarborough Because of the number of similar drag cases in the province it is physically im possible for analysts at the laboratory! to travel to all courts in jdntario and give testimony To avoid tiis difficulty the courts will accept a certifi cate of analysis from the lab oratory providing it has been properly documented and identified 1 However in order to use wc KV like to be better than numoer three We hope to be a major force in the industry He said! his company presently in the zone the area between being a small chain and a major one 4 adS to our of "8 faith a family affair In addition said the elder Zahorchak The new theatre opens to ert who lives In Niag a showing hrottl film Obsession starring Cliff 1 aam I1IM RCLlVtUl fl 1 nt AM I Cl WWW aunt who manages Retum o( the peniiaie the kino oi ousiuy ln rin that Sc even The Seneca Twin Cinemas able to please the pnbl even though the One of six in Canada That eat dog Robert Zanorcnax mean8 it has a theatre on a classic success story 8 By JOHN EDOR Review staff writer What Canada needs are more success stories like the one of Canadian Theatres MsA? a young vzecnosiovaxian unnugrani jmcnaei wuuam Zahorchak comes to Canada settles to St Catharines and tries to persuade bankers to loan him 3100 to bankroll his first venture selling french i fries from a converted truck The bankers refuse him a loan He finally obtains the money from a friend After the success of the french fries business he moves onto operating con cessions at arenas and then opens his own restaurant In 1947 he treads into new iorriinrv th wnrlrf nf Mmria theatres He builds the Cana A dian Drive In to St Cath annes uie iirai unve ui iu Canada rom there showbusi i ness all the way for Mr Zaborchakand bis family who parlay the one theatre oper ation into the third largest theatre chain Canada Today Mr Zahorchak firm based to St Catharines has a string of 36 theatres with 51 screens from Calgary to Montreal AnH naHu chmr Kiv eaviaa eoes vou nothing yet Canadian Theatres flvwwm nAmwfattnff ffnr la tknntwtt in nlonn Il KMC urcnww and expects to double tne size of the chain to about five vears Only giant American owned amous Players chain i with 400 theatres in this coun try and the British owned Odeon chain with 300 are big ger Robert Zahorchak son of the founder and director of the advertising and publicity is a fiercely proud Canadian who is quick to point out that Us firm is the only Canadian owned theatre chain to Canada Even the logo Xd mkmAm film strip triangular in Zahorchak (left) founder of the Cana shape with a Canadian dian Theatres Group and his son Maple Leaf in tire centre Robert director of advertising and The log is smack in me Centre of the marquee of the hew Seneca Twin Cinemas on Queen Street which has been given a major facelift Canadian Theatres Group has already made an impac" in the entertainm field to the Niagara Peninsula In ad dition to the new Seneca the Princess Theatre and the Hollywood Drive In all to Niagara alls the company lias the twin cinemas in Well Seaway Mall the new pendale Cinemas plus other pinamoq and drive ins in St Catharines 1 The theatre explosion in Robert Zahorchak said Us Niagara alls matches only future expansions the plaza explosion in the hinge largely on the film city products it can ray innu vol distributors: or years he said US dis tributors have discriminatedgainiit fle smaller Canadian operators because it was better business tol sell films tn the larse" chains which could guarantee great films Mr Zahorchak is con er exposure of the lilmst made it easier Ifor Canadian companies like Ibis Is the surge of nationalism in this country during the ImZOs The US distributors perhaps sensitive to the new mood in Canada began giving Cana 1 dian firms a better crack at buying products on a com petitive basis i small man should have a chance to purchase pictures We should be en i fitted fo share all products in cluding Mr Zaborehak said He said distributors now see the value of selling films to bis group of theatres be cause they know they will get nUte amWMUire in such COOA centrated areas as the Niag Robert Zahorchak has faith ara Peninsula' i in the future of downtown hope we can expand if Niagara alls' nnmAnnif we get tne hllit tndav narticularlv in the i uanauiaii hiwuct vmuj) cided to spend wuuw wpAnAvatA and ex pand the bld Seneca Theatre a m4a 4Isa AM AOT1 I I I LI1U '''V Ull vvswwvi fifstdwin cinema oper ation downtown Niagara alls and building the two cinemas is Another Opening Michael William vate Robert Zahorchak said building ANUWK7B VHVUSM AUm ILaaIm cknwe IA fulfil bitt uic ucw means ouuwv company has in this downtown area The company is building three mote cinemas in this city at the Niag ara Square shopping plaza in 1977 He said five screens Niagara alls is a lot but he is convinced they will all work because "we are giving people in this city a menu ot five By giving Niagara alls residents a wide choice of fident it will stem the tide of people going to Niagara alls NY or Hamilton and Toronto to see HiS Kle to atVrod UVWCl aU JJWIAZUWM of films will assure more first run top movies for the eny iivv 8WPPninu changes Mr Zahorchak feels Seneca twinning signified 1 ite i I 3 faith in downtown Bookkeeping error leads to dismissal 7 f'r Charges of possession of cannabis marijuana against a Niagara alls man and wom an were dismissed in provin cial court Wednesday because of a bookkeeping error by Niagara Regional Police i Daniel Coughlin and Linda Antle were charged with pos session of marijuana July 22 after a series of incidents that began with a car being stopped for a traffic violation on erry Street During investigation of the violation police sent the names of the seven occupants in the car through a police computer Two of the seven identified Mr Coughlin and Miss Antle were found to have outstanding warrants against their names One of two arresting om 1 In business 28 years fuel firm closes sin the region has prepared dreigns for an underpass ra Tho Alter years in uusiim uawvt Road has closed its pumps A Ralph Sauder one of the three brothers who own the oil and gasoline business said today are going out of He said the station will be up for sale and probably pur chased by another oil company Sauders opened business in 1948 and installed its first gasoline pump in 1953 Mr Sauder said possible he and his brothers may re open another station at a different location The present station will be re opened within a few weeks in order to sell off the gasoline left in the tanks dne of the reasons for selling the station is the effect a planned underpass may have on the business Mr Sauder said 1 Con Eidt Niagara director of engineering said Bruises on body 1 I contributed to death a i ffl1 pathologist tells trial it "tr wne ht a norvmic and confused state He sure what Jiad happened? she said Mrs Newell said Christina had a bad temper and would throw tantrums during which she beat her head against the wall She said she once hit the gfrl on the buttocks with a belt Mrs Newell said her daughter bruised easilyThe defence began late Wednesday with brother Richard 12 telling the jury Martin disciplined the girl never in the wrong He said he saw the accused hit the girl with a yardstick but not very hard because she stay out of ins basement workshop He said nn one swing the yardstick broke against a freezer Mrs Helen Cobb a cousin of Mrs Newell said Christ ina had a bad temper but she agreed with Crown Attorney Allan root that the child ac ted like a normal three year old girl Mrs Lena Martin mother of the accused testified she saw bruises on the body eb 25 and several days later when she visited Christina at Hamilton Gener al Hospital she saw a bruise on the forehead which had not been there before The trial continues Lane News Briefs STOLEN The management of the Top Drive in on Lunuy neo tne men oi 3200 cash irom a rear ottice at approximately 8 pm Wednesday It is believed someone entered the office through an unlocked door and took the cash from an office desk LEAVE GRANTED Two teachers at Georges Vanier School in Niagara alls will be leaving the Welland County Roman Cath olic Separate School Board yeaf to teach overseas with the Department of Na tional Defence 1 7 The board granted Nick Barillaro and Leonard Moccio permission Wednesday to go on loan to the department of national defence for a two year period starting Septem ber 1977 Portable one of the longest candy counters of any theatre in Canada As well as being able to buy popcorn candy and soft drinks the patron can also buy hot dogs The expanded lobby Is in hiia a 'niaav hark vltina nnrt plooant With iUl? tvpe theatre but the old Se mirrored waif and' potted costing 10335 is the third to piMilVO vriaawai mk pleasant standard items innue School The ministry ot i the Canadian Theatres chain education will give 39500 to Even the washrooms have ward the cost and the board shed their institutional look will pay the remainder i and been redecorated in bright colorful tiles Tn maintain a little of the Hie upsuuia vnreina mi is his secretary MAntmai Zahorchak said is one of the oiu uie who books film and an most lntimate hou8e8 in that adorned tne oiu tneatres tne new wn haveoeen resiuivu 1 and Return nt tne ouuuier vinunu lire suunici Um 2 that mav not be dox omce nr blockbusters but still good in Both projection booths are qUaljty equipped with the most mod The new theatre features era projectors i1' Zni 115? rirn XCXU I arap I tv I i KC ja VP I V' ISaBIliiCT Il 6 Ik 1 I 'a 1 1 (t i 1.