Second Prize

For their crusade against the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina. Editor Willard Cole of the Whiteville News Reporter (circ. 5,007) and Editor Horace Carter of the Tabor City Tribune (circ. 1,500) won a Pulitzer Prize this year (TIME, May 11), the only one ever given to weekly papers. Last week Editor Cole was praised from another quarter for his journalistic enterprise. In the mail came an unsolicited letter from former Imperial Wizard Thomas L. Hamilton, who was sent to jail, along with 15 other Klansmen, as a result of the weeklies' crusade. Said Hamilton's letter, which Cole put on Page One: "All my friends everywhere should disband the Ku Klux Klan ... I am through with [it] and believe all my former associates will best serve themselves and society as a whole by taking a similar stand."

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