Longview News-Journal from Longview, Texas • Page 36

Court orders reapportionment Candidates disagree at forum Section H3) Harrison County may not be holding primary elections May 3 unless the commissioners court has formulated a apportionment plan. See story on page 6-D. State representative candidates for District 3 and candidates for 71st District judge presented their views at a League of Women Voters forum in Marshall. See story on page 6-D. General news TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1980 Dead East Texans Vere all good divers9 'Nobody is going to ever know what happened By BOB HOWIE Staff Writer PONCE DE LEON, Fla.

Saturday started out just like any other dive for four East Texas men as all were in high spirits for the morning's activity cave diving in crystal clear Vortex If all went right, the four would be back on the surface at a.m. some twenty minutes after they began their 10:30 a.m. descent. Texas paper nominated PORT ARTHUR, Texas (UPI) Pulitzer Prize Board officials have announced the Port Arthur News was nominated for the prize for investigative reporting for its series on the use of toxic road oil in 16 east Texas counties. Although the Boston Globe was the winner of the prestigious journalism award in the investigative category, the Pulitzer Prize Board for the first time in its history Monday also disclosed the names of finalists in each of the categories.

The Port Arthur series, which began in April 1979, detailed how hazardous waste had been mixed with road oil spread in 16 subdivisions to hold down dust. Subdivision residents reported feeling dizzy and other symptoms. The articles led to both state and congressional investiga- tions. But, all didn't go right and the four were pulled from the spring nearly four-and-a-half hours later by Navy rescue divers. Ronnie Tyner, 24.

of White Oak, John Elliott Swan, 24. of Kilgore, Merritt Reed Steger, 24. and Russell D. Hill. 23, both of Tyler, apparently ran out of air and drowned in the spring's cave thus bringing to 24 the number of divers that have died in the bothering them," Tyner added.

"Ronnie had about 300 dives and John, well, I'm not even going to try to guess how many he'd made in seven years of diving." Tyner added. "I was on the surface and we had no indication of anything having gone wrong down below," Tyner said. "I was watching the time and when it appeared time was running out, I sent two divers down to check. "Ronnie was not tangled up In any of the lines and John only had a line around one foot," he commented. Tyner said his brother who had dived in Vortex Springs many times had told him repeatedly that whatever happened, he would never leave him or his partner in a cave, "I don't know how many times he told me that," Tyner said.

"I just feel that John and Ronnie knew the other two were in trouble and turned around to try to help them. "I don't know when I will be diving again because it will probably be quite some time before I go back in the water," Tyner said reflecting on the loss of his brother. "I really love the sport and I know if Ronnie and John had made it out, they would still be diving today," he said. "Ronnie had been in tight spots before and had gotten me out of tight spots, so he knew what he was doing. "Nobody is going to ever know what happened down there," he said.

"But, they didn't do anything stupid. They were al good divers." ft I 1 "Wow, that's great," said privately-owned spring. Steger is the son of U.S. District Judge William Steger of Tyler. According to Tyner's brother, Jace, 19 divers from Longview, Kilgore and Tyler had gone to the spring on one of a number of dives embarked upon yearly from East Texas.

Tyner said the bus was chartered from Longview and all the divers, except for a student diver who went along for a check dive, had previous diving experience. "We had gone down there just like we do every month," Tyner said. "Vortex is usually the first spot we stop on three springs since Vortex has an air station. "Everyone was in high spirits at the start of the dive and nothing appeared to be City Editor Chuck Cook who along with Jim Carlton wrote the articles. Cook.

35. said he had spoken by phone to Carlton 24 and now working for the Houston Chronicle, and, "He's bouncing off the AP Laserphoto WINS FEATURE PHOTO PI BLITZEIl Skeeter Hagler displays some of his photos. llaglcr wins with cowboy pictures wall." Pulitzer Prizes Mailer receives second Pulitzer NEW YORK (AP) Norman Mailer's "Executioner's Song," an account of the firing squad execution of Utah killer Gary Gilmore, is this year's Pulitzer Prize winner in fiction, and the author says its selection is likely to annoy some critics. Meanwhile, advertising executive-turned-playwright Lanford Wilson captured the prize for drama with, "Talley's Folly," a romantic comedy that moved to Broadway this year after a successful off-Broadway run last summer. Mailer compared his second Pulitzer to a beautiful woman "and the Pulitzer Prize is more attractive than most." The book, which deals with real events and real people, was labeled fiction by Mailer and his publisher, but is considered by many critics to be a work of non-fiction.

"In an era of disintegrating institutions, it is annoying to have categories blurred, and I did that," the author acknowledged. Mailer's previous Pulitzer Prize, in the non-fiction category in 1969, was for "Armies of the Night," an account of anti-war demonstrations at the Pentagon. Wilson responded to news of his prize like an Oscar winner: "I'm very pleased to hear it but I feel like it was written by eight people because we all worked very closely." The play is a comedy about a Jewish accountant who goes to Missouri to woo a spinster. In journalism awards also announced Monday, the Philadelphia Inquirer ran its string of prizes to six in a row and the Boston Globe took three awards for special local reporting, commentary and criticism. The Inquirer won its sixth consecutive prize for its coverage of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident.

Only the New York Times has won more consecutive prizes eight from 1940-1947. The Globe became only the second paper to win three prizes in a year. The New York Times won three in 1978. A five-member team combined for the Globe to report on mismanagement in the city's transit system. The commentary award went to Ellen Goodman, whose syndicated column covered subjects including medical ethics, Iran and the Three Mile Island accident.

The criticism award went to William A. Henry 3d, who writes about television. A gold medal was awarded to the Gannett News Service for meritorious public service for its 18-day series on an order of Catholic priests, the Pauline Fathers, and mismanagment of gifts and contributions. Individuals cited in the award all of whom are Roman Catholics were John Hanchette of Gannett's Washington bureau; William Schmick, the service's state editor, and Carlton Sherwood, of Gannett's national staff. The Pulitzer prizes, which have been awarded since 1917, were founded by Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the old New York World.

Columbia University makes the awards on recommendation of an advisory panel and each award, except for the gold medal for public service, carries a $1,000 prize. The national reporting award went to Bette Swen-son Orsini and Charles Stafford of the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times for their four-year investigation of the Church of Scientology. Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal reporter Joel Brinkley and photographer Jay Mather won the international reporting award for their stories and pictures from Cambodia. Brinkley is the son of NBC News commentator David Brinkley.

Robert L. Bartley of The Wall Street Journal won the editorial writing prize. Don Wright of the Miami News won his second prize for editorial cartooning. A photograph, "Firing Squad in Iran," distributed by United Press International, won the spot news photography award. The Associated Press had distributed the same picture when it was taken.

The photograph showed a government firing squad executing nine Kurdish rebels in Iran. In a statement after the award, UPI said, "Because of the present unrest in Iran, the name of the photographer cannot be revealed at this time." Erwin "Skeeter" Hagler's 23-picture series on the Texas cowboy for the Dallas Times Herald won the prize for feature photography. In the feature writing category, Madeline Blais won a prize for stories for the Miami Herald Sunday "Tropic" magazine about family life. Photographer's dream fulfilled The Only Hy-Test Qj Store In Longview Tube Socks since 1974, took the pictures that accompanied a series on cowboys. "It was a classic piece on the Texas cowboy," Hagler told UPI.

"It was in two separate Sunday magazines, on consecutive Sundays, last December. We sent to separate ranches on two different Hagler, known as Skeeter since his childhood, said he shot the pictures at the Pitchfork, 6666 and A ranches in Texas to accompany an article by Maggie Kennedy. "The first was a general piece on the cowboys and the second was one on an 81-year-old cowboy, the oldest working cowboy in Texas," he said. Hagler said he is one of several photog 95 DALLAS (UPI) Erwin H. "Skeeter" Hagler says it's just soaking in that his Dallas Times Herald spread on cowboys has won him the Pulitzer prize, the fulfillment of "every photographer's fantasy." Lured to the newsroom from the photography laboratory by a "fake meeting" to discuss a future issue of the newspaper's "Sunday" magazine that featured his pictures, Hagler walked in Monday to find dozens of colleagues and bottles of champagne.

"It was a fake meeting," he said breathlessly. "They had some champagne waiting for me." "It's just now kind of soaking in," said Hagler, 32, minutes after he learned he had won the coveted journalism prize for feature photography for his series on the Western cowboy. Hagler, a University of Texas graduate who has been with the Times Herald 13 doz. raphers required "to do "everything Justin Belts Rain Suits news, sports, features" but feature photog raphy is his first love. "I like doing features best.

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In addition to determining the makeup of Congress with the new population figures, the 1980 census also will determine the distribution of more than $50 billion annually in federal funds to the nation's cities and states. Mrs. Womack said residents will be able to identify Census enumerators by their red, white and blue badges showing they represent the U.S. Department of Commerce (under which the Census Bureau falls) and similarly-colored 1980 Census bags containing census forms and other materials. Gregg County has been broken down into a number of "Enumeration Districts," each containing about SS0 housing units.

If mailing address registers which will indicate whica households have not responded to the census arrive from the Tyler Regional Office, Mrs. Womack said the enumerators will start to work immediately. "We've also exhausted all of our applications for workers," she said. "We've gone through everyone who passed the census test at the TexaS Employment Commission offices here." Testing continues at the Longview TEC offices, and hiring of census workers is expected to continue into the summer. Mrs.

Womack said enumerators participating in the current follow-up calls will be paid $3.80 for each long census form completed, $2.20 for a short form, and $1.75 for vacancies, which entails the worker going to a vacant address to answer five br six basic census questions. By VAN CRADDOCK Staff Writer If you haven't filled out that 1980 Census form by now, you may be getting a knock at your door within the next few days. Carol Womack of Longview, one of five Census Bureau crew leaders in Gregg County, said 70 to 80 workers soon will be making follow-up calls to households that haven't returned their census questionnaire for one reason or another. "We hope to start contacting the homes this week, possibly by Wednesday," said Mrs. Womack, who said census enumerators have been attending school this week to prepare them for the tasks ahead.

Training session got under way Monday at Longview's First Presbyterian Church and will continue through Tuesday. In the classes, enumerators are learning how to interview persons, census definitions and map-reading. In the case of questionnaires that were returned to the Census Bureau incomplete, enumerators will be contacting those households by telephone. In cases where no questionnaire at all was returned, census workers will be making a personal visit to the address. "I hope the public understands that all of the information we receive is confidential," said Mrs.

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