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the pulitzer prizes Apr. 14, 1981 13A ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Paper Wins Prize For Bfowo Lmeg9, Seriesi I resignation as manager of the Yankees," the jury said. The Longview (Wash.) Daily News, with a circulation of 27,500 and a staff of 18, received a Pulitzer Prize in local reporting for its coverage of the eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 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 announced Monday.

The Arizona Daily Star, owned by the Pulitzer Publishing was awarded a prize for special local reporting for its investigation of the University of Arizona athletic department. The Pulitzer jury praised reporters Clark Hallas and Robert 9. Lowe; of the Tucson paper for an Neumann and' Ted Gup of the Washington Post for their series on government contracts, and Joseph Volz, Richard Edmonds, Bob Herbert and Alton Slagle of the New York Daily News for their series on U.S. military preparedness. International reporting: Richard Ben Cramer of the Philadelphia Inquirer for his coverage from Afghanistan, and Randall Richard of the Providence (R.I.) Journal-Bulletin for his coverage of illegal drug activity in Colombia.

Editorial writing: Jack Burby, Los Angeles Times; Kirk Scharfenberg, Boston Globe, and Morris S. Thompson, Miami Herald. Cartooning: Jules Feiffer, Village Voice of New York City and Paul Szep, Boston Globe. Spot news photography: David Tenenbaum, Associated Press, for his picture of the flag-draped hockey goalie Jim Craig at the 1980 Winter Olympics and Roger A. Werth of the Longview Daily News for his photographs of Mount St.

Helens. Feature photography: Paul Beaver of the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger for his photographs of the Mississippi Delta region and Michael C. Hayman, Flint (Mich.) Journal, for his photographs of automobile workers. Commentary: Richard M. Cohen, Washington Post, and Howard Rosenberg, Los Angeles Times.

Criticism: Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times, and Allan Temko, San Francisco Chronicle. Feature writing: Madeleine Blais, Miami Herald, Teresa Carpenter, Village Voice, and Douglas J. Swanson, Dallas Times Herald. il '3 If- 1 Arizona Daily Star reporters Clark Hallas (left) and alleged use of athletic department funds by Uni- Robert B. Lowe congratulating each other on versity of Arizona football coach Tony Mason and hearing they had won the 1 981 Pulitzer Prize for 8ix of his assistants.

Looking on in the city room in special local reporting for their series of stories on Tucson is assistant city editor Steve Emerine. investigation that revealed that four athletes and their wives were hired by the city work they never, did and other athletes were sent to community colleges for courses, --they never attended. The Observer wis honored for its series, Brown Lung: A Case of Deadly Neglect," dealing with the cotton dust breathed more than 100,000 textile workers in the Carolinas. The Pulitzer jury, Said the Observer "focused its editorial resources to expose and draw publio attention to a killer invisible cotton dust breathed by 115,000 textile workers every day in the Carolinas." NewYork Times reporter John M. Crewdson, 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. Crewdson, who walked across the Mexican desert at night with immigrant smugglers, was praised by the jury, which said the reporter's investigation prompted the Justice Department to begin its own review of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Anderson was cited for his column, which appeared four times a week in the Times. "He commented on the behavior of athletes' agents and he described in devastating detail the press 'party' George Steinbrenner held to announce Dick Howser's 'voluntary' Columbia University President Michael I. Sovern also announced the following finalists in each category: Public service: the Long Beach (Calif.) Independent Press-Telegram for its series on unnecessary deaths because of inadequate emergency room care in Los Angeles County! and the Nashville Tennessean for its reporting on the national resurgence of the Ku KluxKlan.

1 General reporting: the Baltimore News American staff for "The Snowball Tragedy," a story of the gap between the young and the elderly, and the Miami Herald newsroom staff for "Three Days of Rage: The Miami Riots." Ms. Cooke was also a finalist in this category, but her entry was moved by the board to the feature writing category in which she won the Pulitzer. Special local reporting: Pamela Zekman, Gene Mustain, Gilbert Jimenez, Norma Sosa, Larry Cose, Patricia Smith and John White of the Chicago Sun-Times for their series on accident swindlers, and Richard Morin, Carl Hiaasen and Susan Sachs of the Miami Herald for their series, "Key West Smugglers' Island." National reporting: Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele of the Philadelphia Inquirer for their series, "Energy Jonathan IKSMJPP 9000 AFRICANS Tapestry Of New Orleans Wins Fiction Prize For Late Author wr i was.

i Sketches of winners and their reactions. Page 15A AP 1980. Less than an hour after the volcano first erupted, every editorial employee on the Daily News voluntarily reported for work, and editors had reporters near the mountain and a photographer flying around it. In two weeks, the staff produced more than 400 stories on the volcano. The Miami Herald won the award for international reporting for dispatches by Shirley Christian, reports on what the jury termed "the human stories the peasant, the soldier, the landowner" in Central America.

The award for editorial cartooning went to Mike Peters of the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News. One of Peters' editorial cartoons was a picture of a handgun and a package of saccharin. "This killed 9,000 Americans last year," the caption said of the handgun. "This killed four white rats," it said of the saccharin. "Can you guess which one's been banned?" Peters is the son of Charlotte Peters, the former television personality in St.

Louis. Larry C. Price of the Fort Worth (Texas) Star Telegram won the award for spot news photography for his pictures of the aftermath of the military coup in Liberia last April. He was the only U.S. photographer to witness the firing-squad execution of 13 members of the ousted regime.

The award for feature writing went to Janet Cooke of The Washington Post for "Jimmy's World," her article about an 8-year-old heroin addict. The story "was met by a wave of shock and disbelief," the jury said. But, the panel added, social workers and school teachers confirmed that heroin was being used by others of the boy's age. The Pulitzer for criticism was awarded to Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Star for more than 50 book reviews of a broad range of fiction and Thelma Toole With son's winner Robert Byrne, a professor of medieval literature who taught with Toole at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, called "Confederacy" a burlesque of J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye." Other Pulitzer Prizes in arts and letters were announced Monday by Columbia University President Michael I.Sovern.

The prize in drama went to Beth Henley for "Crimes of the Heart," a play about three eccentric sisters living in a small Mississippi town, dealing comically and tragically with their everyday lives. Ms. Henley, an author-actress born in Mississippi and now living in Los Angeles, previewed her "Crimes of the Heart" in regional theaters in Louisville, St. Louis, Baltimore and Los Gatos, before it ran for five weeks off Broadway this winter. The history prize went to Lawrence A.

Cremin's "American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876." Cremin's analysis of the history of American education, published by Harper Row, examined educational institutions, publishing, family, church, business and ethnic influences. He is a JOHN M. CREWDSON Of the New York Times National reporting, for his coverage of illegal aliens and immigration. SHIRLEY CHRISTIAN Of toe Miami Herald International reporting, for her dispatches from Central America. THE LONGVIEW (WASH.) DAILY NEWS Distinguished general local reporting, for its coverage of the eruption of Mount St.

Helens volcano. HWNNt II-- of Reaction To Prize 'Really Wild' Compiled From News Services DAYTON, Ohio The newsroom at the Dayton Daily News erupted in joy Monday when it was announced that editorial cartoonist Mike Peters had won a Pulitzer Prize. "It's crazy, really wild," said the 37-year-old Peters, son of former St. Louis television personality Charlotte Peters and a graduate of the Washington University School of Fine Arts. "It's great to be a winner," Peters said, adding that he had been tipped about the prize last week, but said nothing because "I didn't want to get my hopes up." "I know, I swear, that in about four days I'm going to be saying, I'm no good this year, even though I was great last year, because I don't like today's cartoon," Peters said.

Peters, who won for bis overall work, started working at the Chicago Daily News, but has spent his entire 11-year cartooning career with the Dayton paper. He has hundreds of exceptional cartoons to his credit. He said he was especially proud of the ones that had an impact on specific people he tried to reach. "I feel very strongly about gun control, for instance, and some of my work has really hit home with people who are against it," he said. 1 non-fiction works.

There was no award for editorial writing. The feature photography award went to Taro M. Yamasaki of the Detroit Free Press for his pictures of Jackson State Prison in Michigan. The Pulitzer Prizes were founded by the late Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the old New York World and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

They have been awarded since 1917 by Columbia University on recommendation of an advisory board. Except for the public service category, the awards carry a prize of $1,000 each. The winner in the public service category gets a gold medal. professor and president at Teachers College, Columbia University. The biography award went to Robert K.

Massie for "Peter the Great: His Life and World," a study of the Russian monarch's fascination with Western Europe and its influences. Massie, of Irvington, N.Y., also is the author of "Nicholas and Alexandra." James Schuyler captured the poetry prize for "The Morning of the Poem," published by Farrar, Strauss Giroux, his eighth book, presenting 26 poems focusing primarily on human relationships. The award in general non-fiction went to Princeton history professor Carl E. Schorske for "Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture," a study of the Austrian city at the end of the 19th century. The book shows the influences on modern art and thought of the political upheavals and shifts in social power at that time.

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 awarded was 1965. The prize first was given in 1943. Other nominations in the fiction category were "Godric," by Frederick Buechner, and "So Long, See You Tomorrow," by William Maxwell. The nominating committee did not list other nominees in the drama category.

Other nominations for the history award were: "Over Here: The First World War and American Society," by David M. Kennedy, and "A Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in 17th Century New England," by Lyle Koehler. Also nominated in the biography or autobiography category were: "Walt Whitman, A Life," by Justin Kaplan, and "Walter Lippmann and the American Century," by Ronald Steele. Others nominated for poetry were: "The Right Madness on Skye," by Richard Hugo, and "Selected Poems," by Mark Strand. In the non-fiction category, other nominations were: "Southerners: A Journalist's Odyssey," by Marshall Frady; "China Men," by Maxine Hong Kingston, and "Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War," by William Manchester.

The Pulitzer Prizes for fiction, drama, history and biography have been awarded since 1917 on the recommendation of an advisory board. The prize for poetry was first awarded in 1922, music in 1943 and general non-fiction in 1962. The awards carry a prize of $1,000 each. LARRY PRICE Of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Spot news photography, for coverage of political executions in Liberia. TARO M.

YAMASAKI Of the Detroit Free Press Feature photography, for photographs the state prison in Jackson, Mich. DAVE ANDERSON Of th New York Times Commentary; for his columns on sports. Mike Peters, editorial cartoonist for the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News, celebrating news of his 1981 Pulitzer Prize with a glass of ii-iiiiiiti-ii-iiwivii )- in 11 jyawMgw 11 1' NEW ORLEANS It came a dozen years too late, but John Kennedy Toole's mothe was proud and joyful Monday after her late son won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for his novel, "A Confederacy of Dunces." "I'm very proud and overwhelmed at something ha so richly deserved, but Toole. "He wanted it so much he took his life." Mrs. Toole, who took her son's manuscript from publisher to publisher after he committed suicide in 1969 at age 32, said "he wanted the literary recognition, not the money." The prize capped a remarkable publishing story for a novel that Toole revised rpnpalpHlv rinrino thp lQfiflfi while unsuccessfully seeking a publisher.

"It is a classic! It appears to be a comedy, but underneath, it is full of nkitnimnkir nrA i T. magnificent," his mother said of the book, adding that the prize was not a monument to her pursuit of publishers, but to her son's genius. Mrs. Toole finally found a publisher with the help of Louisiana novelist Walker Percy, even though he, too, was dubious at first. "I pinned him down," Mrs.

Toole recalled. "I told him it was a genius manuscript. He said, 'You're and I was crushed. But a week later, he sent me a postcard. 'Most flavorable novel of New Orleans I have ever read and will ever it said.

Percy got the Louisiana State University Press to publish the novel, and wrote in the book's foreword: "In this case I read on. And on. First with the sinking feeling that it was not bad enough to quit, then with a prickle of interest, then a growing excitement, and finally an incredulity: Surely it was not possible that it was so good." Told of the Pulitzer on Monday, Percy said: "It's a combination of a very happy occasion and1 a very sad occasion. To think of Ken Toole's getting a Pulitzer Prize and when he died he was thinking it would never get published." Toole wrote another novel, "Neon Bible," before "Confederacy." It will be published by a new company in New Orleans. "Confederacy" is a portrayal of the lunatic adventures of Ignatius J.

Reilly, an obese New Orleans man who rebels against the modern world's lack of a proper "geometry and theology." It is a work rich with the dialects of New Orleans, from the Bronx-like twang of the Lower 9th Ward to the jive drawl of Basin Street. recipients The winners 0 the Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and letters in 1980: THE CHARLOTTE (N.C.) OBSERVER Meritorious public service, for its series on brown lung disease. CLARK HALLAS and ROBERT B. LOWE Of the Arizona Daily Star Special local (investigative) reporting, for their investigation of t)le University of Arizona athletic department. This picture of members of the ousted Liberian government executed on a Monrovia beach in April 1980 has won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography for Larry C.

Price of the Fort Worth Star Telegram. AP 1 JAMES SCHUYLER Poetry, for "The Morning of Poem." the CARLE. SCHORSKE General non-fiction, Tor "Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture." For the first time since 1935, the Pulitzer Board did not give an award in the category of ritorial writing. For the first time 1965, no award was given in the category of music. kj! JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE Fiction for his comic novel, "A Confederacy of Dunces." BETH HENLEY Drama, for "Crimes of the Heart." LAWRENCE A.

CREMIN History, for "American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876." ROBERT K. MASSIE Biography, for ll'eter the Great: His Ufe and ssn MIKE PETERS Of the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News Editorial cartooning, for overall work. JONATHAN YARDLEY Of the Washington Star Criticism, for book reviews. JANET COOKE Of the Washington Post Feature writing, for the story of an 8-year-old heroin ddict..