Pulitzer Awards Exemplify Spirit Of American Press
The 1962 Pulitzer Prize awards honor newspapers and editors who fought to uphold press freedom. The Panama City News Herald won for public service with an editorial crusade against gambling and illegal liquor, while Santa Barbara News-Press editor Thomas M. Storke earned the editorial writing prize for exposing the John Birch Society. Other winners include Deseret News reporter Robert B. Mullins for Dead Horse Point murder and kidnaping coverage, Chicago Tribune reporter George Bliss for sanitary district scandals, National Tennessee reporters Caldwell and Graham for coal industry covert cooperation, and Walter Lippmann for a Khrushchev interview. The awards celebrate dedication to the public interest across the nation.
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Panama City
Fla
News-Herald
Bay County
Thomas M. Storke
Santa Barbara
Calif
News-Press
John Birch Society
Robert B. Mullins
Deseret News
Salt Lake City
Utah
Dead Horse Point
George Bliss
Chicago Tribune
Greater
Chicago
Kennedy Civil Rights Push Faces Filibuster Cloture Hurdle
The Kennedy administration's civil rights bid to strike literacy tests from federal voting rules faces a Senate filibuster and possible cloture defeat. Debate centers on voting rights protections under the Constitution with northern Republicans backing federal limits and southern Democrats resisting.
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Washington
South
Supreme Court
Robert F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Senate
Congress
Sam J. Ervin
D-N.c
North Carolina
James Eastland
Dmiss
High Point Exposition Staff praised for hospitality and market energy
The article credits Leo Heer Virginia Jackson and Jack Dempsey with outstanding civic relations at the Southern Furniture Exposition Building following a demanding market. It highlights praise from state news executives and AP News Council, plus a reception hosted by Tomlinson and others. It also notes broader cultural items and editorials.
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Southern Furniture Exposition
Leo Heer
Virginia Jackson
Jack Dempsey
Associated Press News Council
Tomlinson
High Point
North Carolina doctors back no strike pledge on aged care
Tar Heel physicians reject a Jersey doctors' call for a boycott against social security and King Anderson reforms. Dr. David Welton proposes continued patient care without strike actions, praising NC Medical Society for supporting hospital improvements and collaborative efforts to extend medical services.
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New Jersey
David Welton
House of Delegates of
North Carolina Medical Society
Releigh
North Carolina
Editorial on Milk Surpluses and Price Support Cuts
The piece reports that dairy farm income will drop as much as 275 million dollars in the year starting April 1 due to reduced government price supports. It notes the 1961 milk output rise, per capita consumption drop, government purchases, and debates over production controls and deficit-area exemptions.
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Kennedy
Congress
Uncle Sam
United States
White House
South
California
Secretary of Agriculture
High Point Enterprise Obituary and Roll of Staff
The High Point Enterprise lists its staff including A Rawley as president and MRS R B Terry as secretary treasurer along with Holt McPherson editor Morrow and W Patterson Jr in advertising and V W Idol Jr as business manager. It also notes circulation details and subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions.
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MAIL
High Point Enterprise, Inc
A Street
High Point
N. C
A. Rawley
R. B. Terry
Holt McPherson
Urban Renewal Seen As Progressive Plan By Local Writer
Mrs. Virginia P. Johnson argues in favor of Urban Renewal, praising the program as a necessary step for High Point. She highlights sacrifices by long-standing residents, appeals for positive civic judgment, and urges greater investment in education and living standards through renewal.
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Rebecca B. Starling
University of Southern California
USC
Charlotte Buhler
Carl Chavis Ymca
High Point
James A. Barber
Mattie E. Perry
Virginia P. Johnson
Underhill
Our steel export may be down but we still ship out money
The Enterprise editor reviews a CBS TV Civil War program praising its historical film making and noting Lincoln assassination details. The piece condemns liquor's role in history, urging readers to reflect and pray that the dragon can be chained to free the nation.
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Enterprise
Cbs-Tv
Channel 3
Charlotte
Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Washington
G. C. Graham
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Nathan G. Caldwell
Gene S. Graham
National Tennessean
United Mine Workers
Walter Lippman
New York Herald-Tribune Syndicate
Nikita S. Khrushchev
House
Molt McPherson
Abe Burrow
Frank Sinatra
Robert Morse
New York Drama Critics Circle
American Theater Wing
America
Eika Yoda
Cook
Good Afternoon
Beverly Hills
J. Welch Harriss
Herman Tailer
Federal Drug Administration
FDA
Liston Pope
Yale Divinity School
Wesley Memorial Church
World Council of Churches
Vassar
Pope
Sarah Blanding
William F. Buckley, Jr
God
Yale
Higher Education
Board of Higher Education
Eiko Yoda
Jersey
High Point Enterprise
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