Corpus Christi Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 33

CORPUS CHRISTI TIMES Tues April 14 1961 dViyooGumomr cial mention The cartoon above Is one of 10 winning cartoons for Dayton (Ohio) Daily News cartoonist Mike Peters who Is syndicated In 250 papers across the country The staff of the Longview (Wash) Dally News received the Pulitzer Prize In general local reporting for its coverage of the eruption of Mount St Helens (left photo) The photo taken by Roger Alan Worth from a helicopter received a spe Volcano stalkers in Minorities vs tuition hike AUSTIN (AP) A tuition increase could some low-income and minority students out of0 universities and medical schools a House committee has been told But the sponsor of a bill doubling undergraduate tuition at state universities and increasing medical school tuition by 900 percent said the hardship be that great "When resources are limited every dollar Jesse Oliver -a University of Texas law student and president of the Student Bar Assocl-''-ation said last night The House Higher Education Committee heard testimony late into the night then sent several tui tion increase bills to a subcommittee for More than 100 persons of student age packed the hearing room The main bill by Rep Bob Davis R-Irving car- ries out recommendations of a special study com- mittee headed by Lt Gov Bill Hobby It increases undergraduate tuition for students with normal course loads from $60 to $120 a semester Medical school tuition would leap from $400 a year to $3600 Dental school tuition would rise from $400 to $2500 "We are not dealing with impossible economic hardship" Davis said He noted that the undergraduate tuition increase would amount to $480 over four years "less than one-half of one month's salary for an average-graduate That is not much to ask of them to participate in the fine educational system we have in' our state" Davis said tuition covers only 41 percent of the cost of a college education with taxes picking up the rest for medical and dental students "we are talking about these graduates being the most high--- ly paid members of our society on the Oliver speaking for the Texas Student Lobby said increasing tuition "could be a step toward '-limiting minority enrollment" and getting state' universities in trouble with the US Justice De-'-" partment Ray Valdez a student at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and chairman-elect5 of the Texas Association of Mexican-American Students said a tuition increase could have a long- range adverse effect on health in Hispanic commute nities Agent Orange gets backing WASHINGTON (AP) A consumer health group says there is no convincing evidence to support banning a controversial herbicide contained -in Agent Orange which was used widely in nam In a report released today the American Council I on Science and Health said the herbicide 245-T isr not hazardous to people But the council's executive director Dr Eliza beth Whelan recommended that it be regulated to ensure that it is used carefully "When used properly it is a very useful she said "However it should be regulated to assure that it is used in a prudent The council concluded that "no scientific reports presented to date have shown any convincing re- iationship between the traditional use of 24 S-f mom strove for recognition NEW YORK (AP) An author who committed suicide while his novel went ignored and a smalltown newspaper that found an erupting volcano in its back yard have been awarded Pulitzer Prizes for their contributions to the arts and journalism The late John Kennedy Toole was named winner of the 1981 prize for fiction for the comic novel Confederacy of The 29-member staff of the Longview (Wash) Daily News "erupted in when it heard its coverage of the eruption of Mount St Helens had won them the prize for general reporting Rich Oppel editor of the Charlotte (NC) Observer was doused with champagne yesterday after the announcement that the newspaper had received the coveted gold medal for public service in journalism for its series "Brown Lung: A Case of Deadly The series of 22 articles charged government and industry with ignoring the disease caused by cotton dust in textile plants one of leading industries The Pulitzers awarded annually by Columbia University on the recommendation of a jury were en- dowed by Joseph Pulitzer late publisher of the old New York World Except for the public service award which carries a gold medal winners receive $1000 The Longview Daily News wrote more than 1500 stories about its deadly neighbor between July and December After the May 18 blast that left 61 dead or missing reporters "trudged through mudflows and climbed across rooftops for interviews" the citation said The international reporting award went to Shirley Christian of the Miami Herald for her coverage of events in El Salvador and other Latin American countries including the deaths of American church workers in El Salvador New York Times writers took two Pulitzers Houston correspondent John Crewdson who across the Mexican desfert at night with smugglers" received the national reporting award for a series on the treatment of illegal immigrants which led to a Justice Department investigation Times sports columnist Dave Anderson was honored for distinguished commentary Clark Hallas and Robert Lowe of the Arizona Daily Star received the prize for special local reporting for their investigation of the sports department at the University of Arizona (Former Caller-Times reporter Norma Sosa was a finalist in the special local reporting category She was part of a Chicago Sun-Times team that wrote a series of articles on accident swindlers) The prize for editorial cartooning went to Mike Peters of the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News while the award for spot news photography went to Larry Price of the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram who took extensive pictures of a firing squad in Liberia that executed members of the ousted Liberian government Taro Yamasaki of the Detroit Free Press was honored for feature photography for photos taken inside a state prison Jonathan Yardley book reviewer of the Washington Star received the prize for criticism and Janet Cooke of the Washington Post was honored for feature writing for her report on an 8-year-old heroin addict (Former Caller-Times reporter Douglas Swanson was a finalist in the feature-writing category for five stories he wrote for the Dallas Times Herald Swanson is now a free-lance writer in the Chicago area) The Pulitzer board gave the history prize to Lawrence A "American Education: the National Experience the biography award to Robert "Peter the Great: His Life and on the life of one of greatest czars the poetry prize to "The Morning of the by James Schuyler and the award for general non-fiction to Vienna: Politics and Culture" by Carl Schorske The play that won the 1981 drama award "Crimes of the by Beth Henley had been seen in regional theaters in several cities before it had a month's run at the off-Broadway Manhattan Theater Club last early this year The play to debut on Broadway this fall concerns three eccentric sisters in a small Mississippi town No awards were made by the Pulitzer Prize Board this year for editorial writing or for a musical composition by an American It was the first time in 46 years that editorial nominees were passed over and the first time in 16 years that the music prize went unclaimed By KEVIN NOBLET NEW ORLEANS (AP) John Kennedy Toole unable to get a publisher for his novel Confederacy of Dunces" despondent at the prospect of never winning literary recognition took his own life Twelve years after he went to sleep in an idling automobile his comic novel about New Orleans won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction testimony to the determina- tion of a mother who 1 was convinced the novel -was a work of genius very proud and overwhelmed at something he so richly deserved but didn't get while he Thelma Toole said yesterday of the award to her son's book wanted the literary recognition not the money" she said wanted it so much he tbok his The book is a rollicking portrayal of the adventures of Ignatius Reilly who rebels against the modern world's lack of a proper and It is a work rich with the pungent dialects of New Orleans neighborhoods from the Bronx-like twang of the Lower 9th Ward to the jive patter of Basin Street In March 1969 the 32- "I pinned him she recalled 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" As Percy wrote for the book's foreword: 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 Percy tried unsuccessfully to interest his own publishers in the book and then went to Les Phillabaum director of the Louisiana State University Press in Baton Rouge They took it despite having published only two novels previously think the capstone to one of the most remarkable publishing stories ever heard of let alone been associated Phillabaum said when he heard of the prize There is a second novel by Toole "Neon which was written before "Confederacy Plans for its publication are under way Asso elated Press John Kennedy Toole year-old author drove to Mississippi to seek ad-vice from author Flannery O'Connor because he was despondent about his failure to get published friends said That day he left his car's engine running and went to sleep Despite rejection slips from eight publishing housing Mrs Toole pressed for the publication "They told me I was Mrs Toole said "It is a classic! It appears to be a comedy but underneath it is full of philosophy and insight It is just When she found novelist Walker Percy teaching a class in writing she pestered him until he read her 4 r- 1 i I i I Ray graduate Price smuggled photos out of Liberian airport and adverse health effects in humans These conclusions based on an examination studies that had been done on the herbicide challenged immediately by environmental groups and others pressing fora total ban on the chemical important to recognize that you don't havfr to wait to act until there is a mountain of scientific data" said Marchant Wentworth a spokesman for Environmental Action Inc "There is mounting evidence that this chemical and its contaminants are Dr Whelan defending the council's conclusions said in an interview herbicide has a toxioA impact and we are not saying it is safe at any dose But at present levels of use we are saying there are no known problems" I Officials conflict "If over Atlanta killings ATLANTA (AP) Atlanta Mayor Maynard! Jackson urged FBI Director William Webster to- day to stop making "casual press statements" about the Atlanta child killings and police officials said they are not close to solving the cases Webster was quoted in The Atlanta Constitution as saying authorities investigating the deaths of 23 black youths have a suspect in 12 to 16 cases and have "substantially solved" three or four other unrelated cases But Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown told a news conference today that police are not dose to arrests in any of the cases "Have we solved the cases? The answer is no We know more about some than others but we do not have sufficient evidence to indict" Brown said In a letter released by his press secretary Jack- -son told Webster: do not wish to be indelicatots but I respectfully urge that you consider the into pact of your casual press statements on our local situation here Your statements undermine the public's confidence in our investigation and create a great deal of misdirected media speculation and? invective" Jackson said statements about the Atlanta cases starting to hurt We need Wash--ington's help not more problems" Parliament pelted in attack on Lebanon BEIRUT Lebanon (AP) Mortar and artillery fire rained down on the Lebanese Parliament -building today trapping the speaker some gov- ernment ministers and legislators inside for three hours official communiques reported Syrian peacekeeping forces and rightist Christian militias accused each other of the bombard- ment of the Villa Mansour near the mid-city Green Line that divides the Christian and Moslem sectors of Beirut At least eight shells exploded in: the courtyard and around the Parliament building while the ministers and legislators dove for cover The new fighting shattered a nearly week-old cease-fire between Syrian soldiers and Christian? militiamen here and in Zahle 30 miles to the east i The truce had been sporadically observed A police spokesman said President Elias Sarkis arranged with the Lebanese army and Syrian peacekeeping forces to coordinate a rescue of the trapped officials lected by the Pulitzer judges He is the son of Mr and Mrs David Price 3314 Casa De Amigos Price's winning photographs were taken April 23 1980 and were smuggled past Liberian airport authorities and published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and distributed by The Associ- By BOBBI REISTE Staff Writer Corpus Christi native Larry Price is "excited as can be" about winning the Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography price's series of 10 photos of the executions of 13 former Liberian government officials was se i i a ted Press Price 27 said "Pulitzer prize-winning photographs seem by nature to be violent I philosophize about that or rationalize it That comes from the reaction by the people that see the Price is a graduate of WB Ray High School He attended Del Mar College (where he won the outstanding journalism award in 1973) Sam Houston University and was graduated in 1977 from the University of Texas He worked at the El Paso Times two years before joining the Star-Telegram photograph staff in 1979 just as excited as I can be" Price said getting married in May and this puts a very happy note on it" Martha Price said her son would marry Star-Telegram reporter Debbie Lynne Mitchell "I was excited about the wedding now so thrilled I can't Mrs Price exclaimed "He's always wanted to be a photographer" Mrs Price said since his father let (Larry) use the 35mm camera at age 11" She said Price was sent with reporter Paul Roth to investigate Liberia's coup "Fort Worth is the home of Southwestern (Baptist Theological) Seminary which has a seminary in Liberia The seminary tipped off the Star-Telegram about the coup in Mrs Price said "We knew (Larry) had submitted the photographs (to the Pulitzer jury) We told him to call us as soon as he knew He called at 2 yesterday afternoon" she said very proud of him" Fort Worth Star- Telegram photographer Larry Price (left) celebrated his winning of the Pulitzer Prize in spot news photography with executive editor Jack Tinsley and other staff members in the paper's newsroom United Pres vy- -s "'ia-S.