European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday april 8968 the stars and stripes Page 23 toll rises to 25, 42 still missing in Indiana blast duet British Singer Cliff Richard gives a congratulatory kiss to Spain s Massiel Winner of the euro vision song contest. Richard place second in the Condon event. A photos Spanish songstress wins such a Surprise London up Spanish Singer Massiel lived up to her Nick name of Bombshell saturday by winning the 13th eur vision song contest. The Madrid born 20-year-Oldtook a narrow Point Victory in the 17-nation contest with the song la la one Point behind her in the voting was Brit Ain s Cliff Richard singing con winning songwriters were Ramon Arcusa and Manuel de la Calva. France s Isabelle Aubret trying for a second Victory came in third with 20 Points singing la Twenty three countries saw the Competition telecast live from the Royal Albert Hall. The Tele vision audience May have numbered 200 million. Massiel real name Maria Delos Angeles Santamaria was unknown until two years ago. No she regularly tops the pop charts in Spain and latin America an has had several Golden discs de noting a million records sold. She has made several film Sand has been chosen two years running As the most important artist of the year in Spain and latin America. I am just proud to have Sun Spain s first winning song Mas Siel said after her joined her to give congratulations. The bouncy Raven haired chanteuse hugged and kissed the writers of her song. This whole thing was such Surprise she said. I came Back from a trip to Mexico to find this song waiting for was spam s second Choice to sing la la Manuel Serratt the original selection wanted to sing the Songin catalan his native dialect and was dropped by the Spanish selection committee. This is the biggest thing that has Ever happened to me said Massiel. It will make my career even Britain was leading m Points until Germany gave six votes to Spain to put the eventual win Ner in the Lead. Richard admitted disappoint ment in his dressing room after Ward but added As we were second How can i grumble with Only one Point Between us Spain had Only 29 Points to Britain s 28. Arcusa and de la Calva arc Spain s top songwriting team. They have been working together for seven years and this was their 100th song. Fans shouting Viva Espana greeted Massiel As she left the Hall. Doormen kept Back crowds mobbing her and when she entered her car the crush made it hard to close the door. Eventually she Rode away to a reception at a hotel. Carlos Mendes the portuguese contestant was among the first to Greet her there and offer con is a popular Winner he said. All the other Singer agreed she deserved to be High portuguese entry Vera finished Lith with five Points. Richmond ind. A the death toll mounted to 25 sunday with 42 persons still listed a missing As Rescue workers Franti Cally combed through the debris of an explosion and fire that ripped through two blocks of main Street Here saturday. More than 100 persons were reported As injured. Capt. Robert Konkle state police chief of operations said the rubble of eight buildings three destroyed and five damaged May yield "10 to 50 More de pending on How Many were in the bulldozers were brought i to shove aside the debris piled up along the two Block stretch of main Street which is also . 40.an emergency morgue was set up at the National guard guard troops cordoned off the the cordon two build Ings were left with nothing standing higher than a Man s head. Flames damaged five other buildings leaving Only the Walls standing. The building were two and three stories tall. State police said Gunpowder apparently exploded in the base ment of the Marting arms co.,a sporting goods store. There was no immediate words to what touched off the gun death toll mounted steadily As police and firemen picked through the debris of strewn bricks and the charred hulks of parked the request of City officials the Fri dispatched its disaster squad from Washington d.c., to assist in identification of the blast injured were taken to Reid memorial the Only Hospi Tal in this Eastern Indiana City of 44,000 Wright assistant administrator of the Hospital said the emergency room had received about 50 injured who would be held for treatment and that More than 50 others Nadreen Given emergency Aid and blast broke out windows More than three blocks away and was heard More than a mile away. Moon. Fewer germans jobless Nuernberg. Germany a West German unemployment declined during March to 459,900 Job seekers 116,200 fewer than a year ago and 130,000 be Low the count at Start of the month the Federal labor office has reported. Continued from Page 1 launching is to conduct further scientific studies of near lunar space Tass said. Preliminary results of the processing of measurements show that the station is travelling along a trajectory close to the estimated 14 is expected to reach the Vicinity of the Moon in about 80 about 35 hours soviet scientists Are expected to decide whether it would be necessary to make a mid course correction and How much of a shove with Small directional rockets the probe would need to nudge it within reach of the Moon s weak gravitational Field. Canadians elect Trudeau As Premier Ottawa Topi Pierre Elliott Trudeau Canada s Jet set Bachelor Justice minister was elected saturday by the ruling Liberal party to succeed retiring Lester b. Pearson As the nation s 15th prime minister. Trudeau a frug dancing m i 1-Uonaire, led All the Way through four ballots to become Leader of the party he once scorned As a Bunch of the French Canadian former Law professor Defeated eight other candidates. Trudeau munching grape through six hours of voting won the race with 1,203 votes on the fourth ballot in a Duel of millionaires with former t r a u minister Robert Winters who finished second with 954.the new Leader s supporters among the crowd of 10,000 Nottawa s glittering civic Center went wild. Girls in Orange mini skirts danced in aisles with boys in White Turtleneck sweaters. Clean Campaign the party is very United Trudeau said. It s been a clean intend to begin working immediately in the morning. I the kind of Man who does t take a will be measured against Robert Stanfield Leader of the opposition conservative party when the next general election is called. Recent polls have indicate that Stanfield a Nova Scotia lawyer would defeat the liberals if an election were held now. Russians buy Moscow up Ernest Hemingway s novel for who the Bell tolls previously banned in Russia will be published Here soon. It is sold out already. The novel will appear in four volume edition of Heming Way s works sold Only by subscription. All subscriptions have been line estimated at 5,000 peo ple gathered saturday morning at one of Moscow s Central Book stores which was Able to accept Only 400 subscriptions. A Black Market is developing for the right of subscription to the four one of the great est of Hemingway s novels for whom the Bell tolls deals with the Spanish civil War in which the russians played a major role helping the Republican government against the Franco Reb . Terrorism rages on Saigon a Viet Cong terrorism continued Strong in March with a total of 577 civilians killed and 1.180 wounded government officials claimed sunday. The government figures which . Officials say they verified also showed that 1,426 people were abducted during March. Gway Els supported by Adolf Ali Lei and Benito he was sympathetic to the Republican cause hem Ingway s portrayal of some of the russian characters in t h rebook was unflattering Dolores Iba Ruri one of t h communist leaders during t h e War known As la Pas Onaria took particular Exee Stirr to the Book in which in thinly d i a guided form she appeared us one of the important characters
