Longview paper wins Pulitzer
NEW YORK (AP) - The
Charlotte (N.C.) Observer was
awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize
for meritorious public service
and The New York Times was
cited for national reporting and
commentary as the 65th Pulitzer
Prizes in journalism were an
nounced Monday.
The Longview (Wash.) Daily
News, with a circulation of
26,000, received a Pulitzer in
local reporting for its coverage
of the eruption of Mount St.
Helens on May 18, 1980.
The Observer was cited for its
series “Brown Lung: A Case of
Deadly Neglect,” dealing with
the cotton dust breathed by
more than 100,000 textile
workers in the Carolinas.
Times reporter John Crewd
son, Houston correspondent for
the newspaper, won for more
than 40 articles on illegal aliens
and immigration problems.
Dave Anderson of The Times
was cited for his sports
columns.
The Arizona Daily Star was
awarded a Pulitzer for special
local reporting for its investiga
tion of the University of Arizona
athletic department.
The Miami Herald won the
award for international report
ing for dispatches by Shirley
Christian from Central America.
Awards for cartooning went
to Mike Peters of the Dayton
(Ohio) Daily News and for spot
news photography to Larry
Price of the Fort Worth (Texas)
Star Telegram for photographs
from Liberia.
The award for feature writing
went to Janet Cooke of The
Washington Post for her article
about an 8-year-old heroin ad
dict.
The Pulitzer for criticism was
awarded to Jonathan Yardley of
The Washington Star for his
book reviews.
There was no Pulitzer award
ed for editorial writing.
The feature photography
award went to Taro Yamasaki of
the Detroit Free Press for his
pictures of Jackson State Pri
son in Michigan.
The Pulitzer Prizes were
founded by the late Joseph
Author wins fiction award
NEW YORK (AP) — “A Confederacy of
Dunces,” by the late John Kennedy Toole, has
captured the 1981 Pulitzer Prize in fiction.
Beth Henley’s "Crime of the Heart," was
awarded the prize in drama.
The prizes were announced Monday by
Columbia University President Michael Sovern.
The history prize went to Lawrence Clemin’s
“American Education: The National Experience,
1783-1876.” The biography award went to Robert
Massie for “Peter the Great: His Life and World.”
James Schuyler captured the poetry prize for
“The Morning of the Poem.” The award in general
nonfiction went to Carl Schorske for “Fin-de-Sie
cle Vienna: Politics and Culture."
On the recommendation of the nominating
jury, no prize was awarded for a distinguished
musical composition by an American.
The last time a prize in music was not award
ed was 1965. The prize first was given in 1943.
Toole, who wrote “A Confederacy of
Dunces" in the 1960s and committed suicide at
age 32 in 1969, was the first posthumous Pultizer
winner in fiction. His comic novel, set in his native
New Orleans, was rejected by many publishers
until his mother, Selma Toole, got novelist Walker
Percy to read it. Percy then persuaded the Lou
siana State University Press to publish the book
last year.
Toole taught at Hunter College in New York
City, the University of Southwestern Lousiana and
Dominican College in New Orleans.
Beth Henley, 28, an author-actress born in
Mississippi and now living in Los Angeles,
previewed her "Crimes of the Heart" in regional
theaters in Louisville, Ky., St. Louis, Baltimore and
Los Gatos, Calif., before it ran for five weeks off
Broadway this winter.
The play is about three eccentric sisters in
small Mississippi town, dealing comically and
tragically with their everyday lives.
—making the news—
From Associated Press Reports
SALEM — The Senate voted 24-2 today to approve more
than $100,000 for two probes of alleged impropriety by state
legislators.
A bill that authorizes about $92,000 for the Department of
Justice and another $8,000 for the Oregon Ethics Commis
sion now goes to the House.
Attorney General Dave Frohnmayer said his staff would
question all legislators after charges that Sen. Dick Groener,
D-Milwaukie, used a car owned by a former lobbyist and
purchased a house from the lobbyist.
Frohnmayer confirmed last weekend that a Marion
County grand jury is hearing evidence in the probe.
SALEM — The state Court of Appeals changed its mind
Monday and upheld a Lane County murder conviction that
the court had reversed last December.
The murder case involves Robert Turner, who pleaded
guilty to the December 1976 ax slaying of William Jones,
whose body was found in a bag in the McKenzie River east of
Eugene.
The Court of Appeals originally overturned the conviction
on grounds that Turner's lawyer incorrectly advised him that
he could be considered for parole in 10 years when usual
state Parole Board standards wouldn't make him eligible for
parole for 25 years.
But the appeals court reversed that decision Monday,
saying it was based on an erroneous assumption that Turner
would have to serve at least 25 years.
200 blacks
still detained
in London riot
LONDON (AP) - Home
Secretary William Whitelaw
today announced a major
government investigation of
Britain’s worst race riots since
World War II and rejected
blacks' demands that he pull out
more than 1,000 police sent into
the Brixton ghetto during riots
this weekend.
Black leaders in the south
London ghetto called for a mass
rally this Sunday in support of
200 blacks arrested in the week
end clashes, which injured
more than 200 people and
caused an estimated $2 million
damage.
Whitelaw, who is in charge of
the nation’s law enforcement,
told Parliament, “The police will
continue to do their duty to
maintain the law on the streets
of London.’’ He said an appeals
judge, Lord Scarman, will head
the government investigation.
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mendation of an advisory board.
The Pulitzer jury said the Ob
server “focused its editorial re
sources to expose and draw
public attention to a killer —
invisible cotton dust breathed
by 115,000 textile workers every
day in the Carolinas.’’
Last February, the newspaper
published 22 articles and eight
editorials detailing the failure of
public officials, businessmen
and physicians to deal with
brown lung.
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