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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1957
Page
4
The San Antonio Light announces Cashword and Cornword puzzles with a $1275 correct-solution prize, $475 base prize plus $475 home-delivery bonus, and $25 for pasting your entry. Deadlines are 9 a.m. Monday Jan 21. Double Dividend offers $2200 if one new subscriber is gained. Prize totals reach $7450. entries via mail to The Light contest editor in San Antonio.
A word puzzle item lists clues about a player who affects teammates. The puzzle hints at a sheriff’s report around a tree and a cook valued for meals. It notes modern manufacturers’ uses for a product and hints at quick appeals. It ends with a farm child startled by a garden sound and parents pamper a child while sensitive men fear animals.
Rules outline who can enter the weekly Coinword contest at the San Antonio Light. Employees and affiliates are ineligible. Entrants mail a completed puzzle on a postcard to the San Antonio Light, P. O. Box 481, San Antonio, Texas, by noon Wednesday. Prizes include 100 dollars for a correct solution, with 25 dollars added to next week’s base prize if no winner, plus a subscriber bonus of 100 dollars for a winning entry from a home-delivered subscriber.
James G. Roberts of the U S Chamber of Commerce will be the principal speaker at a special area businessmen legislative conference hosted by the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce at the Menger hotel. The meeting aims to discuss legislative tools for chambers, leadership issues, and national chamber projects. entry terms include a contest with up to $1000 in potential awards and final judges' decisions.
Explanations detail word and concept clues across several items. MACE, RAFFLE, HANK, ENVELOP, ATONERS, FINE, SPENDER, BABBLE, WEDGE are discussed as the correct or improved choices with reasoning on letter patterns meanings and contextual fit for each clue.
The notice explains a Double Dividend credit for COINWORD and CASHWORD puzzles when a home delivered Light subscriber gains a new subscription for another reader. Fill in subscriber name, address, state, city, and phone, then mail to Circulation Department to claim eligibility.
A text lists word usage guidance with examples for TAKEOFF GRAVE CONVERGE FLOAT OXEN OMEN NOBBY SILK NAME RIPE and notes differences in meaning. It discusses contexts like impersonation, serious conduct, meetings, bail bonds, folklore omens, fashion, and addressing nicknames.
St Marys university and the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce sponsor two new Institutes of Civic Leadership and Chamber of Commerce Administration. Courses run Monday through Friday from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. January 14 to March 8 at the Woodlawn campus. Twenty specialized courses cover advertising sales management selling by telephone business letters labor and management law for laymen modern office management Spanish and speech. Leading business and professional leaders will teach.
Red Cross offers two first aid courses starting Monday at 9 a.m. at the chapter house and a 7 p.m. session Saturday at the San Antonio Transit Co shops classroom. Morning class is Advanced First Aid led by Mrs. R. C. Myers with four sessions from 9 to noon on dates chosen by enrollees. Evening instructor course meets Mondays 7 to 9 through Feb. 25 taught by Ben Glaze. entrants must be at least 20 and hold minimum certifications.
Harry B. MacRae a member of the Christian Science board of lectureship will speak Tuesday in the auditorium of McAllister Fine Arts center at San Antonio college under the First Church of Christ Scientist San Antonio. The lecture is free and open to the public. MacRae’s subject is Christian Science Its Correct View of God and Man Brings Healing.
The San Antonio Restaurant association offers management training from Monday to Friday. Guido Jordan says the course How to Supervise Employees runs 2 to 4 p.m. daily at Mammy's cafeteria No. 1 with Frances Bowden of the Texas University Extension Division as instructor.
Civil defense relating to the armed forces will be discussed at a conference Wednesday at Fourth Army headquarters. Attending will be representatives of the defense department, army, continental army command, national headquarters and Region 5 of the Federal Civil Defense administration, Red Cross, Eighth Naval district, 14th Air force, and Fourth Army.
The first meeting of a new naval reserve unit to be known as a naval reserve fleet division will be held at 7:30 p.m. on February 5 at the U S Naval Reserve Training center 311 FE Arsenal. Comd R L Mc Vay announced the program for petty officers and seamen who chose rate training and have served on active duty.
F C Lawrence of a Houston auditing firm will speak at the San Antonio chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants at 7 30 p m Wednesday. The technical session will be held at the Gunter hotel.
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