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8A ST PFTFRSBURG TIMES TUFSDAY APRIl 15 19-RO SALE ENDS THURSDAY Boston Globe wans 3 Pulitzer Prizes By DAVID WVSOKI United PrB (met national Ac is lh Plat with lh Hlpful Hardwai Man It was the second time a newspaper has won three Pulitzers in the same year. The New York Times accomplished the feat in 1978. The public service award to Gannett was granted, according to the Pulitzer Committee, for "iu series on financial contributions to the Pauline Fathers, located in the hills of eastern Pennsylvania "Reported and written by three Gannett writers John M. Hanchette, William F. Schmick, and Carlton Sherwood, each of whom is Roman Catholic, the stories told how donors were misled and fundii squandered, how criminal elements became involved in church fund-raising and how eventuully the church confronted its mispractices and began to make amends." OTHER PRIZES were awarded to: The start ol the Philadelphia Inquirer for distinguished general-local reporting tor the newspaper's coverage ol the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island.

Madeleine Blais of the Miami Herald tor feature writing stories about families and Individual achievements that have appeared In the newspaper's Tropic mag-a'lne. Norman Mailer tor fiction for The Executioner's Song on the Gary Gllmore execution. Mailer and his pub lisher cal the book work of fiction, but many critics considered It nontlctlon since it tells the story of real people Involved In real events. Joel Brlnkley and Jay Mather of the Louis nine Courier-Journal tor international lournailsm for their reporting and photography on Cambodia Brlnkley, 11, Is the son ot NBC television commentator David Brlnkley. RobertL Bartley ot the al Street Journal or distinguished editorial writing.

Don Wright of the Miami Newt for excellence in editorial cartooning. Erwm H. Hauler of the Dalai Timet Herald for feature photography tor a series on the western cowboy. Lantord Wilson tor drama for his romantic comedy TaUey't Folly. Leon F.

Lltwack for history for hit book Been In the Storm So Long: The Aftermath ot Slavery. Edmund Morris for biography for his work The Rise ot Theodore Roosevelt. Donald Justice tor poetry for his Selected Poems. Douglas Hofstadter for nontlctlon for his work Godel, Etcher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, a book of mathematical philosophy. David Del Tredicl for music for his work Memory ofa Summer Day, a piece for solo soprano and orchestra.

The priies were founded by the late Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the old Hew York World. They have been awared since 1917 by Columbia University on recommendation of an advisory board. The awards carry a 11,000 prize. NKW YORK The Huston Globe won 1980 Pulilzer Pnzen Monday in three categories local reporting, coniruentary and cntiiUm and the Gannett News Service won the Pulitzer for Public Service. Bette Swenson Orsini and Charles Stafford of The St.

Petersburg Times won for national reporting for their investigation of the Church of Scientology (Details, I-A). The Pulitzer for spot news photography was won by a photographer whose name was withheld for his own safely. He was cited for a photograph "showing a government firing squad executing nine Kurdish rebels and two former police officers of the deposed shah in Sananda, Iran." A TEAM OF five reporters for the Huston Globe won in the category of special local reporting for a series on Boston's mass transit system, and prizes were also awarded to the Globe's Ellen Goodman for commentary and William A. Henry 111 for criticism. P.V.C.

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Those reports prompted major legislative reforms in state auditing and bonding practices. Often honored for her tenacious investigative reporting and perceptive education writing during 33 years as a Petersburg Times staffer, Mrs. Orsini was exuberant when notified of the award. "Oh my God, it's absolutely incredible," she said. "When Kugene Patterson (the Times editor and president) called and told me about it, I hy down on the floor and started kicking my legs in the air.

It's one of those moments in a journalist's lifetime that is just the ultimate. The Pulitzer is something you always admire when someone else achieves it, but you never think the day will come when your name will be in that (awards) story." Throughout her career, Mrs. Orsini has been a consistent winner of local, state and national journalism awards. In the mid-1970s, her investigation of Floyd Christian, who was then Florida's education commissioner, led to his indictment for bribery, conspiracy and perjury. Christian resigned from office and pleaded no contest to the criminal charges.

Stafford's 31 years in newspapering have been marked by a talent for clarifying complex issues and transposing dry documents into interesting reports for ordinary readers. He maintained his customary low key when informed of the award. Ml FITTIKGS IN STOCK pi? 27 particularly grateful the Pulitzer jury saw fit to select their work from among the uniformly excellent entries of the other finalists because of the incredible harassment Bette suffered during her original reporting on the Scientologists," Haiman said. "Nothing can ever fully compensate Bette and the Orsini family for what this group did and tried to do to her. But winning the Pulitzer goes a long way toward it." THE PULITZER Prizes, established by the late Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the now-defunct New York World, were first awarded in 1917.

A record total of 1,082 entries competed this year in the 12 journalism categories. The Scientology series had been nominated for the public service award, but the Pulitzer Prize Board moved it to the national reporting category. Others nominated for the national reporting prize were: Joseph P. Albright, national correspondent for the Cox Newspapers, for a series on energy; George Anthan, of the Washington bureau of the Des Moines Register, for a series on disappearing farmland; and the Los Angeles Times staff for a series on chemicals in the environment entitled "Poisoning of America." The winners Charles L. Stafford has been chief of The St.

Petersburg Times' Washington bureau since September 1968. He is a native of Grafton, W. Va. and majored in journalism at the University of West Virginia. Before coming to The Times, Stafford reported from his home state as well as from Baltimore, New York City and Tampa for the Associated Press and for The Tampa Tribune.

He joined AP in 1951 and became a Washington correspondent for The Tribune in 1955. is i Bette S. Of smi has been a St. Petersburg Times reporter for 33 years. She attended St.

Petersburg Junior College and graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in psychology. Since joining The Times, Mrs. Orsini has specialized in investigative reporting and in covering education. Besides The Times, she has worked for the Arkansas Democrat and the Richmond News-Leaoer. but unsuccessful, intimidation as she delved into the Scientologists' covert operations.

She gained for herself and The Times a high spot on the cult's "enemies list." Members of the church repeatedly tried to get her fired and attempted to smear her husband, Andrew Orsini, executive director of Easter Seals in Pinellas County. Stafford wrote his series of articles last December after the U.S. District Court in Washington released the church records that had been seized in FBI raids on Scientology headquarters. He combed through dozens of boxes of confidential records to compile a lucid account of the church's activities in Clearwater and its strategies for dealing with its critics. Stafford credited Mrs.

Orsini for the major role in telling the Scientology story. "Bette did most of the reporting on this," he said. "She did the digging and investigating." BUT HIS SHARE of the Pulitzer pleased the entire Stafford family in the Washington suburb of Springfield, Va. "My wife said we should cu'l the carpenter to repair the hole in the ceilin," Stafford said. "She said this is her eighth miracle the first seven being our three children and four grandchildren.

She's got a lot more talent than I have. She is, I think, the premier kindergarten teacher in the Fairfax County school system. also is my best friend." Times Editor Patterson said, "The happy thing in the award is that Charley and Bette fully earned it. In the process, they served this community and the nation by clarifying facts that needed telling. Their principal purpose and achievement were to serve this community by enlightening residents of facts that affect them directly.

My personal reaction is that two fine reporters, in the prime of their careers, have done the best job of aryhody in the nation on a major story, and that makes an editor awfully happy." Patterson noted that the Orsini-Stafford reports also have focused attention of the national media on Scientology activities. "Already," said Patterson, "the of these two reporters has guided Mike Wallace in his 60 Minutes segment Sunday night thai amplified those details printed in The St. Petersburg Times into 50-million homes across the country." Robert J. Haiman, executive editor of The Times, echoed Patterson's pride. "And we're TOiLAFLEX PLUNGER I wauBi coumoi 49 3" Ends toilet leaks, squeaks.

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