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Section The Daily News Longview Washington Tuesday April 14 1981 Daily News had received Pulitzer Prize From left reporters Andre Stepankowsky and Fran Kaiser City Editor peak coverage impressed Pulitzer jurors Joy greeted word Monday that The Depth of Examining more than 80 entries from newspapers throughout the country was not an easy task for the five jurors who made nominations for the best general local reporting of 1980 But in the end The Daily News entry on Mount St Helens rose to the top unanimously recommended as the nominating first choice for the prestigious Pulitzer Prize jurors said today Under the selection process juries nominate finalists in each category to the Pulitzer Board for awarding of prizes The Pulitzers awarded since 1917 are considered the highest honor for journalism in the United States coverage was far superior to the other Western papers that submitted volcano for the Pulitzer said Anthony Insolia vice president and editor of Newsday a Long Island NY daily newspaper Insolia chairman of the jury which reviewed the entries for general local reporting said coverage by The Daily News displayed care and was not or sensational It put the human elements and the scientific elements in The second choice in that category a story on an 8-year-old heroin addict by Janet Cooke of The Washington Post was moved by the Pulitzer Board to another category and awarded the prize for best feature story of 1980 Insolia said Word of The Daily selection Monday touched off pandemonium in the newsroom Interviews by Portland television stations and congratulatory phone calls competed for attention given to popping champagne corks Dave Connelly reporter Marlon Villa Photos by Eugene Louie The Miami Herald won the award for international reporting for dispatches by Shirley Christian from Central America Awards for cartooning went to Mike Peters of the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News The award for feature writing went to Janet Cooke of The Washington Post for her article about an 8-year-old heroin addict The Pulitzer for criticism was awarded to Jonathan Yardley of The Washington Star for his book reviews There was no Pulitzer awarded for editorial writing The feature photography award went to Taro 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 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 $1000 each The winner in the public service category gets a gold medal Among those phoning in congratulations were Jack Tarver chairman of the Associated Press Ed Cony vice president of news for the Dow Jones Co publisher of the Wall Street Journal United Press International NBC the Canadian Broadcasting Co the Seattle Times Sen Henry Jackson D-Wash and the faculty from the University of Washington School of Communications The award to the news staff of the newspaper was accompanied with special recognition of the work done by Daily News Photography Editor Roger Werth said Richard Baker secretary to the Pulitzer Board were terribly favorably impressed with the Werth photographs and went out of their way to mention it along with the award to the Baker said Werth had entered his photographs of the volcano and its destruction in spot news photography competition The nominating jury recommended Werth as one of three finalists out of 98 entries submitted Jean Otto one of the nominating jurors said she and the other four jurors were by the breadth and of the coverage when they recommended The Daily News' entry to the Pulitzer Board The jurors felt the newspaper did a professional reporting job on a complicated and rapidly changing said Ms Otto editor of the op-ed page at the Milwaukee Journal Ms Otto also is a past president of the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Sigma Delta Chi two weeks ago awarded its top national prize for general reporting to The Daily News for coverage of Mount St Helens traordinary a mad Oliver Hardy a fat Don Quixote a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into The prize for non-fiction was awarded to Carl Schorske professor of history at Princeton University for Fin-de-Siecle Vienna Politics and Culture Published by Knopf the book is a political and social study of Vienna at the end of the 19th century The second volume of Lawrence A survey of education in America today was awarded the prize in history American Education: The National Experience 1783-1876 published by Harper and Row analyzes American education its problems and progress with its relation to the society In the category of poetry James Schuyler won the prize for The Morning of the Poem a book of 26 poems that focus on human relationships in both rural and urban landscapes Jurors awarded Peter the Great by Robert Massie the Pulitzer prize in the category of biography The book published by Knopf is the life story of the monumental figure in Russian history Managing editor Bob Gaston shows entry to cameraman From left Tom Paulu Kathy Connelly Roger Werth The winners earns service award Award for fiction goes to author who died in 1969 the Star-Telegram and distributed by The Associated Press Roger Werth photo editor for the Longview paper was a finalist in the spot news category for his photos of the May 18 eruption The Pulitzer Board also made special mention of photographs when it awarded the general local reporting prize to The Daily News said Richard Baker secretary to the board Finalists for the general reporting Pulitzer won by Longview were the Baltimore News American staff for Snowball a story of the gap between the young and the elderly and the Miami Herald newsroom staff for Days of Rage: The Miami New York Times reporter John 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 The Arizona Daily Star was awarded a Pulitzer for special local reporting for its investigation of the University of Arizona athletic department NEW YORK (AP) The Charlotte (NC) 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 news staff of The Daily News of Longview received a Pulitzer in general reporting for its coverage of the eruption of Mount St Helens on May 18 1980 The Observer was cited for its series Lung: A Case of Deadly dealing with the cotton dust breathed by more than 100000 textile workers in the Carolinas The Pulitzer for spot news photography went to Larry Price of the Fort Worth (Texas) Star Telegram for his pictures of the aftermath of the military coup in Liberia last April He was the only US photographer to witness the firing-squad execution of 13 members of the ousted regime bluff and enterprise he managed to get his film past Liberian airport authorities" the Pulitzer jury said adding that his pictures were published in The Pulitzer prizes in the category of letters drama and music went to six authors but no music prize was awarded this year The jurors gave the prize in drama to Beth Henley for her first full-length play Crimes of the Heart Performed in St Louis Baltimore Los Gatos Calif as well as in Manhattan the play deals with tragedies of everyday life for three sisters living in a small Mississippi town The action takes place on the oldest 30th birthday the youngest has just shot her husband and the middle sister is an unsuccessful singer Henley herself a native of Mississippi has written two other full-length plays The first posthumous Pulitzer for fiction was awarded to John Kennedy Toole for the comic novel A Confederacy of Dunces which he wrote in the 1960s but was not published until last year In 1969 at the age of 32 Toole committed suicide Set in New Orleans Toole's hometown the book is about Ignatius Reilly a character described in the foreword as slob ex 'J i.