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Pecos (TX) Independent and Enterprise , by Oscar Griffin, Jr.

Who as editor initiated the exposure of the Billie Sol Estes scandal and thereby brought a major fraud on the United States government to national attention with resultant investigation, prosecution and conviction of Estes.

The Jury

Frank R. Ahlgren

Editor, Memphis Commercial Appeal

Price Day*

Editor-in-Chief, Baltimore Sun

Arthur C. Deck

Executive Editor, Salt Lake Tribune

James E. Fain

Editor, Dayton (Ohio) Daily News

Edward Lindsay

Editor, Lindsay-Schaub Newspapers, Decatur, IL

Winners in Local Reporting - No edition time

George Bliss

For his initiative in uncovering scandals in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, with resultant remedial action.

Edgar May

For his series of articles on New York State's public welfare services entitled, "Our Costly Dilemma," based in part on his three-month employment as a State case worker. The series brought about reforms that attracted nation-wide attention.

Miriam Ottenberg

For a series of seven articles exposing a used-car racket in Washington, D.C., that victimized many unwary buyers. The series led to new regulations to protect the public and served to alert other communities to such sharp practices.

John Harold Brislin

For displaying courage, initiative and resourcefulness in his effective four-year campaign to halt labor violence in his home city, as a result of which ten corrupt union officials were sent to jail and a local union was embolden to clean out racketeering elements.

1963 Prize Winners

Frank Miller

For a cartoon which showed a world destroyed with one ragged figure calling to another: "I said we sure settled that dispute, didn't we!"

Ira B. Harkey

For his courageous editorials devoted to the processes of law and reason during the integration crisis in Mississippi in 1962.