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Thursday, December 11, 1969 Colborne Chronicle. page three COLBORNE CHR°N1CLE Established in 1959: Successor to the Colborne Express (Est. 1866) and the Colborne Enterprise (Est. 1886) Published every Thursday at the office of publication King Street, Phone 355-2107. Colborne, Ontario Member of the C.W.N.A. and O.W.N.A. Subscriptions Payable in Advance in Canada S3.O0 In U.S.A. $4.00 Second Class mail registr ation number 1810 Horses Beware, Pierre, beware The Sixties may go down as the decade the politicans took on the press. When Pierre Elliott Trudeau decided to date a girl in London, the British and Canadian press had a field day, interviewing the girl and having her comment on the PM. Mr. Trudeau lashed out at the "snoopers" and issued a veiled threat that if they didn't leave him alone, then perhaps it was lime their private livps were investigated. Neither side backed down but since that outburst, there has been little in the way of interviews with the PM's lady friends in the Canadian press. In fact, when he snuck out of Ottawa early for a date with "Funny Girl". Barbra. Streisand, the Ottawa press corps was caught flatfooted. The public was left guessing on Miss Streisand's opinion of our Prime Minister. In the United States, the press and Spiro Agnew are going to it with gloves off. Mr. Agnew has probably been ridiculed more than any vice-president. Cartoons of Mr. Agnew in the form of a puppet held by the president appear regularly. When Mr. Nixon went on his quick trip around the world, some of the cartoons in the large U.S. newspapers were brutal. The vice-president was depicted as a retarded person who couldn't even be trusted to let the dog out on time. But starting with a major speech in the midwest, Mr. Agnew has lashed back. Obviously, the president found that it was safer for the vice-president to attack, and the results were the same. The Agnew call to the "silent majority" to speak out, rallied the support-, ers of the Vietnam war and probably resulted in a crackdown on violence by the organizers of the November moratorium in Washington. At lies Moines, Iowa, Agnew took, on the television networks, accusing them of slanting news coverage and abusing their p°wer over public opinion. What apparently turned him on was the treatment given President Nixon by the three U.S. networks following his Vietnam speech. • 'The audience of 7< ...illion by a small band of network commentators and self-appointed analysts, the majority of whom expressed in one way or another, their hostility to what he had to say." Such words coming strictly from Agnew would be dismissed as yet another example of the man from Maryland putting his foot in. But according to Newsweek magazine, the speech was part of a Nixon crusade. In fact, according to the magazine, presidential aide Patrick Buchanan drafted the speech. Next on the Aguew-Nixon target practice program were the New York Times and Washingtcr. Post. This speech was delivered in Montgomery. Ala., and any attack on the N<w York Times is certain to draw cheers there. After all, didn't the New York Times attack the citizens of Alabama for their stand on segregation, and didn't the governor of that fine state label the brcss of the Times "pinkies." So Agnew was applauded when he pointed out that other papers gave front page prominence to support from both parties for President Nixon's Vietnam policy. "Yet the New York Times', which considers itself America': paper of record, did not v a word. Why? 9 "If a the. s '.udent in Iowa should get up at a PTA luncheon in Sioux City and attack the president's Vietnam policy, my guess is that you would probably find it reported somewhere next morning in the New York Times." (Actually, the Times missed one edition with the story on Congress support.) The media are hitting back at Agnew, just as many did at Trudeau when he tried to gag the press on tours and to shut off news sources in govern-meat The CBC National News, we thought, gave Agnew the best shaft. Don Harron said a big fire in Maryland had not been reported by the CBC. "The iibrary of Spiro Agnew was destroyed in a fire. What's worse, both books were burned and he hadn't even started to color one of them." Beware, Pierre. Quit when vol. pre ahead: Chronicle Xmas Issues A Winter Night! Silent, lovely, Snowflakes falling. Away in the d stance Sounds of sl-hhbells, Children (laughing. Churchbells, carols , Families uniting, Remind us Christ was born. Christmas is with us, The birthday of Jesus, Peace is here. VS. Horse-Power A Winter Night! Silent, lovely, Snowflakes falling. Up past the houses Snowmobiles roaring Children shouting. Traffic speeding! Families uniting Try to remember Christ was born. Christmas is with us, The birthday of Jesus, Peace is here? Post Offices ARE History from; the Cobourg Sent'nel Star The announcement of Russ Honey, MP, regarding the closure of several smaller post office bureaus in the counties, draws the curtain on an era of a famed country institution. The local post office has been the unofficial community centre for the village over the years; the people met there to exchange talk and compare letters. Mr. Graydon Mcintosh has been postmaster of Cold Springs post office since 1953 the position has been in his family for five generations now, and at present serves 65 families. The first post office was begun in 1835 for Cold Springs. It was in the log cabin store of Graydon's great grandfather. The stage, which ran until 1925, brought mail out from Cobourg to all the little settlements, undertaking rural routes as well after Mackenzie King began the rural route system in 1921. Cold Springs post office has always been under the custody of a Mcintosh: Feb. 8, 1970, it will finish that way 140 years later. Camborne post office was begun a few years after the office at Cold Springs. It has been in the house which is now the Albert Emond home for over 100 years. Mr. Emond also runs a general store with the post office in the old tradition. The Cobourg mail stage would drop the first load of mail at Camborne before delivering to Cold Springs, Gore's Landing and Harwood. At present, Camborne post office serves 38 village families and 39 on the rural route which is 77 families or 250 people. When the post offices are officially closed, they will be serviced by rural routes for delivery. To mail parcels and buy stamps the people of both communities will travel to Gore's Landing, Bewdley, or Cobourg post offices. from Pilgrim times. To-Oays iootoali fan still encounters scalers Elections Percy Twp. Warkworth Percy Township elections for Councillorship were held 'est Saturday Arthur Wart-man topped the polls with a vote of 432. Wayne Pollock and John McCracken won the other seats with tallies of 406 and 360 respectively. Incumbent Arthur Meneilly ' and newcomer James Stephens finished out of the running. Reeve Daniel Lawson and Deputy reeve Everett Maynes were returned to office by acclamation. Warkworth police village held its election last Saturday for trustee positions. John Bowen and Douglas Laver tied with 163 votes to win re-election. Clare Campbell, a newcomer, won third place as trustee. William Johnston was also in the running. You are onlv what v<nu ?»re when r.ojne is locking.