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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuetday, May 1 1M Russell Jones Wins Pulitzer Prize for Job Of Reporting During Uprising in Hungary New York :-U.Pj United Press staff correspondent Rus sel' Jones was awarded the Pu litzer Prize for international re porting Monday for "his excel lent and sustained coverage of the Hungarian revolt against Communist domination." Jones, the only American newspaperman in . Budapest from Nov. 11 until he was ex pelled Dec. 6, already had re ceived two other awards for his coverage of the Hungarian free dom fight the George Polk Memorial Award and a Sigma Delta Chi citation for distin guished service in foreign cor respondence. Chicago Paper Honored The Chicago Daily News won the award for meritorious pub lic service by a newspaper for its exposure of fraud in the of fice of Illinois State Auditor Orville E. Hodge'. The exposure resulted in a jail sentence for Hodge. Wallace Turner and William Lambert of the Portland Ore gonian won the prize for dis tinguished local reporting with out pressure of deadline time. They were cited for their expo sure of vice and corruption in volving Portland municipal of ficials and officers of the Team sters union. Their exposes began an investigation that reached into the top echelon of the Teamsters Union and since has moved to Washington. Local Reporting- Honor The staff of the Salt Lake City Tribune received the award sure of edition time for cover age of the collision of two air liners over Grand Canyon. "This was a great team job that sur mounted great difficulties in distance, time and terrain," the citation said. The prize for the best play went posthumously to Eugene O'Neill, the fourth Pulitzer prize for the dramatist. The lat est citation was for "Long Day's Journey Into Night," now play ing in New York. The prize for biography went to Sen. John F. Kennedy CD Mass.) for his book "Profiles In Courage," a study of political in tegrity using as ' examples a number of past American politicians. The history prize was award- for local reporting under pres- ed to George F. Kennan, former Lambert, Turner Thrilled Over Reward for Local Reporting Job Portland, Ore. (U.R) "It's a wonderful feeling," chorused William Lambert and Wallace Turner when they learned they had been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished local re porting without pressure of edi tion time. The two reporters on' the Portland Oregonian were cited for their expose of vice and cor ruption in Portland involving some municipal officials and Teamsters Union officers. The award was based on a series of articles Turner and Lambert wrote linking Team sters officials with attempts to take over vice and gambling od- erations in the city. grand jury investigations which led to indictments of city and county officials and Teamsters bosses and to a Senate Rackets Investigating committee hearing on conditions in Portland. A chance remark by racket eer James B. Elkins, later a star witness before the Senate committee, led to the investiga tions by the Oregonian reporter team. Turner said he had heard "rumbles" in the fall of 1955 about Seattle Teamsters officers' attempts to "get to" certain city and county officials. He said he was talking to El kins about another matter when the racketeer let drop that he The series sparked several had been having troubles with WOMAN REPLACES SNYDER President Elsenhower enjoys a laugh with Ann Wheaton after she was sworn in as associate presidential press secretary in a ceremony at the White House. She succeeds Murray Snyder, who is now Assistant Secretary of Defense. Miss Wheaton served as assistant to the director of publicity of the GOP Na tional Committee the. past 17 years. WHY TERMITE DAMAGE IS SO COSTLY Termites secretly attack the under stmcturc of your home. They honey comb the inside of timbers, floors, and woodwork until only a thin shell remains. Repairs are very expensive (often hundreds of dollars) because it costs much more to replace struc tural wood parts than to install them when a home is built. Guaranteed Terminix fratactiea If you have trrmites, call Terminix. Our ntion-wide service has stopped costly termite damage in more than 125,000 homes. Performance of the Terminix contract is triply guaran teed : ( 1 ) by our company, ( 2 ) by E. L. Bruce Co., world's largest maker of hardwood floors, (3) by Sun In surance Office, Ltd. Phone us for a free inspection of your property for termites, and a re port on its condition if evidence of termite attack is found. BIG PINES LUMBER CO. 6th and Fir Street Phone SP 2-6251 ask as ni nti msKtTira As Advertised in Tha Past and SrtttrWmnit Cards Port of Portland Shed Damaged by Monday Fire Portland (U.R) Fire late Monday caused an undetermined amount of damage in a Port of Portland equipment shed at the International airport here. The blaze was reported about 11:30 p.m. and was under control by midnight. Use MaU Tribune Want Ads v , "i - WP - J IT"- I HAWAII CALLING And who wouldn't answer when Joan Beckett (Miss Cali fornia of 1956) is on the calling end. Joan makes a mighty pretty picture splashing in the surf with famed" Diamond Head in the background. A United Air tines official predicts a 15 to 20 per cent increase in travel to Hawaii this year, certain Teamsters. This prompt ed Turner to start checking out his sources. . The trail began to warm up and Lambert teamed with ' Tur ner to work full time on investi gating the reports. "We did some digging here and there," said .Lambert, "and the pieces began to fall into place." Slory Pieced Together The pair worked day and night for weeks, checking out tips, following leads and piecing their story together. They were away from the newspaper office most of the time, . doing their writing from hotel rooms' so that even other members of the staff didn't know what they were working on. The Oregonian began publish ing Hhe series in April, -1956. A year later, more than. 100 In dictments had been returned against scores of persons, in cluding Mayor Terry D. Schrunk and District Attorney William Langley. - The series also gained the Heywood Broun Award for Tur ner and Lambert and the Sigma Delta Chi meritorious public service award for the Oregonian. State Department policy advis er, for "Russia Leaves the War." Kennan now is with the Insti tute of Advanced Studies at Princeton, NJ. Other prizes included: James Reston of the New York Times for "distinguished national correspondence ... an outstanding example of which was his five-part analysis of the effect of President Eisenhower's illness on the function of the executive " branch of the gov ernment." Reston won the na tional affairs reporting award in 1945. Buford Boone, president and publisher of the Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News for "his fearless and reasoned editorials in a commu nity inflamed by a segregation issue, an outstanding example of his work being the editorial entitled 'What A Price For Peace,' published on Feb. 7, 1957."' Cartoon Awarded Tom Little of the Nashville Tennessean for his cartoon de picting a boy on crutches and wearing leg braces watching a neighborhood football game. The captain read, "Wonder why my parents didn't give me Salk shots." Har.-y Trask. of the Boston Traveler "for his dramatic and outstanding pnotograptuc - se quence of the sinking of the liner Andrea Doria." The prize winning pictures were taken from a plane flying 75 ' feet above the water, nine minutes before the liner sank. Richard Wilbur for his vol ume ' of poetry entitled "Things of This World." Wilbur is asso ciate professor of English at Wesleyan University, Middle- town, Conn. Kenneth Roberts, of Kenne- bunk, Me., a special award for "his historical novels which have long contributed to the creation of greater interest in our early American history.!' Norman Dello Joio, Wilton, Conn., composer of his "Medi tations On Ecclesiastes," first performed at the New York School of Music in April of last year. Dello Joio was . the com poser of "The 'Trial At Rouen," an opera about Joann Arc per formed over NBC-TV last April 8. Jones Says Budapest Place for Reporter During Soviet Assault New York (U.R) Russell Jones of the United Press, Pu litzer Prize winner in interna tional reporting for his cover age of the Hungarian - revolt, said today he stayed in embat tled Budapest "because I thought that was the place for a reporter to be." Jones got into the Hungarian capital on Oct. 29, witnessed the crushing Russian assault of Nov. 4 and was the only Ameri can newspaperman remaining in Budapest from Nov. 11 until Dec. 6 when he was expelled. Jones said in an interview that he felt telling the Hungarian story to the Western world was the most important opportunity he had ever had. Minimises Peril "There; was no great personal danger," he said. "The fighting in the city was confined mainly to isolated pockets and anyone could move around the other areas without much peril. The secret police and the Soviets were out to kill the Hungarian rebels, not Western reporters.. "Part of our profession is to cover the news. I didn't realize how important, how much im- Grant to Establish Registry Received A grant of 1,402.45 has been received here to establish a can cer registry at Sacred Heart hos pital, according to Dr. Robert H. Buck, pathologist. The grant was received from the Oregon division of the Ameri can Cancer Society. A cancer reg istry is a systematic method "of following the course and progress of patients who have been treat ed for cancer, Dr. Buck said. A full-time secretary is being employed to compile statistics, he said. pact, the j story was having at the time, but it was obviously of tremendous . significance. And from a human standpoint, that these people should be doing what they were doing. ' "I stayed because I thought that was the place for a reporter to be." To get his stories out, Jones telephoned UP bureas around Europe Stockholm, Vienna, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Bel grade, Prague and even Moscow There was no censorship as such although the Russians cut off all communication from the outside from Nov. 4 to 11, the day a convoy of some 150 other West ern reporters departed. Back China Entry Remaining with Jones as the only correspondents then 'were Endre Marton and Ilona Nyilas, the resident Hungarian corres pondents of the Associated Press and the United Press, and the correspondents of Reuters, and Agence France Presse. Jones said he thought the story of the Hungarian revolu tion pointed up the vital need for Western correspondents to be on the scene wherever some thing is going on, "including Communist China." Jones has now been transfer red to UP Vienna headquarters with the assignment of chief rov ing reporter for Eastern Eur ope. He will return to that post shortly, Multnomah County Lists Seventh Traffic Fatality Portland -r- (U.R) The sev enth traffic death of 1957 in Multnomah county " outside of Portland was recorded today after Norns Adolph Nelson, 34, Gresham, died from injuries suf fered Sunday in a traffic acci dent on Highway 30 about ' a mile east of the Sandy River bridge. When You See GEORGE LEWIS ROGUE TRAUEL SERUICE A FREE SERVICE We Reserve and Sell Airline and Steamship Tickets PHONE SP 2-6779 . LOBBY HOTEL JACKSON STANFORD GETS URANIUM Two tons of natural ura nium in eight-inch "slugs" will power a subcritical reactor assembly now being readied for nuclear engineering studies at Stanford University, Calif. The rare metal, worth about $80,000, is a loan from the Atomic Energy Commission. The assembly is believed to be the first one built in the West for educational use. Eugene T. Jilg (right), graduate student, puts one of the slugs into metal rod under Professor George Leppert's supervision. Air Force Observes 50th Anniversary Eglin AFB, Fla.-XU.R) The Air Force began celebrating its 50th birthday Monday with a powerful display of speed and striking power.' The fastest and newest jet fighters and bombers bared their deadly knockout punch in a se ries of "bombing and strafing attacks against a mythical enemy. The occasion was the Air Force's annual firepower demon stration, kicking off this year a golden anniversary. It also gave a chance for some 6,500 tax payers, dignitaries ; an3 military brass of three nations to see how the tax dollar is being spent for defense. The fliers showed off a brand new birthday present for the na tion's military might. It was the first time a B47 medium jet bomber put on a public exhibi tion of "toss bombing," some thing heretofore limited to jet fighters because of the extreme speed required. Toss bombing is in effect dive bombing in reverse. The bomb is released from the . plans as it climbs. One of the most impressive displays was a mock A-bomb burst in which a B52 jet bomber dropped a special smoke bomb from 5,000 feet which sent the ominous mushroom cloud high over the test area. Normally, a real A-bomb would be dropped from 50,000 feet. Truck-School Bus Crash Hurts Three Boise U.R) A truck collid ed with a school bus carrying 30 Wyssa high school students on Highway 20 west of here Monday afternoon and three bus passengers suffered slight in juries. Ada county sheriff's officers said the bus, driven by Wayne Stites, 37, Nyssa, had passed the truck and apparently pulled in too close ahead of the truck. The truck, driven by Warren Oli phant, Boise, struck the bus n its right rear quarter. I . Sheriffs officers said Juay Watts, Gloria Gamor and Bar bara McPatten, all 16, suffered slight injuries. Both vehicles suf fered minor damage. J " There are morf than seven million acres of irrigated land in California. j & . TnrT.wmfYTfl, m . . T - .j,,. 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