For a distinguished example of a newspaper's use of its journalistic resources, which may include editorials, cartoons and photographs as well as reporting, in accomplishing a disinterested and meritorious public service, a gold medal.
Riverside (CA) Press-Enterprise , by Riverside (CA) Press-Enterprise
For its expose of corruption in the courts in connection with the handling of the property and estates of an Indian tribe in California, and its successful efforts to punish the culprits.
The Jury
The Jury
Stuart Awbrey
Editor and Publisher, Hutchinson (Kansas) News
Robert P. Clark
Managing Editor, Louisville Times
Felix R. McKnight
Co-Publisher and Editor, Dallas Times-Herald
Michael J. Ogden
Executive Editor, Providence Journal-Bulletin
Paul Veblen
Executive Editor, Santa Barbara (Calif.) News-Press
Winners in Public Service
Milwaukee Journal
For its successful campaign to stiffen the law against water pollution in Wisconsin, a notable advance in the national effort for the conservation of natural resources.
The Boston Globe
For its campaign to prevent confirmation of Francis X Morrissey as a Federal District Judge in Massachusetts.
Hutchinson (KS) News
For its courageous and constructive campaign, culminating in 1964, to bring about more equitable reapportionment of the Kansas Legislature, despite powerful opposition in its own community.
St. Petersburg (FL) Times
For its aggressive investigation of the Florida Turnpike Authority which disclosed widespread illegal acts and resulted in a major reorganization of the State's road construction program.
1968 Prize Winners
Eugene Gray Payne
For his editorial cartooning in 1967.
John S. Knight
For his distinguished editorial writing.
Toshio Sakai
For his Vietnam War combat photograph, "Dreams of Better Times."