European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 03, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday june 3,1989 the stars and stripes pages Puzzle unsolved Charity gets Golden horse new York a a $500,000 treasure Hunt thai Drew lovers of mystery and Money has ended with no one solv ing the Puzzle so the prize a buried statue of a horse made of pure Gold and the Eash will go to Charity. No one has been Able to decipher the code that leads to a Fortune promised in the Story treasure in search of the Golden the yarn appeared in 1984 As a Book videotape and laser disc. The Book and film project was devel oped on the heels of such Best Sellers As which offered prizes to readers who solved the mystery. Readers and viewers of treasure had until Midnight May 26 to figure out the clues go to the site and actually dig up the treasure a Small statue of a horse made with 2.2 pounds of pure Gold. Inside the statue is a key to a Safe de posit Box containing an annuity that will pay $25,000 a year for 20 years. According to the Book the trove is hidden in a Public place accessible around the clock somewhere in the United states. Since nobody has found it. That s that declares Thomas Conlon one of three people who know the solution. Conlon is president of . Blair the prestigious sales promotion company that conducts contests for Large corporations and assures that they arc on the up and acknowledged thursday that his offices have been besieged by callers who had tried for years to figure out where the Golden horse was stashed. But he said they can t have the answer be cause they did t solve there was no Promise no suggestion in the sponsor s advertising or in the products that the sponsor produced that said non winners would Ever get the so Lution Conlon said. The Only thing we can do is follow the rules exactly to the in most National contests names of winners arc announced but not their sub missions according to professionals in the Field. In essay or motto or Limerick contests this avoids protest and nuisance suits from contestants who believe their entries were better. In problem solving contests it avoids claims that clues were misleading or ambiguous. With the rules said the prize if unbound. Would go to a Charity and All the Public would be entitled to know is which Charity. The answer to thai is big Brothers and big Sisters of America. David Davison. Assistant executive director of the Philadelphia based youth service organization said an official of the Charity would dig up the Golden horse sometime this summer. In addition to physically unearthing the Golden horse the Charity official also must agree never to reveal where it had been buried Conlon said. The other two people who know the secret arc Sheldon Renan a los Angeles based writer who developed the project and wrote the Story of the treasure Hunt and Paul Hoffman who constructed the codes and clues. Hoffman is a Magazine editor in new York and writes a brain teaser column under the name or. Krypton. I understand and sympathize with their said Ronan speaking of frustrated callers who Are beseeching him to reveal the solution. But he said he is bound by the rules of non disclosure. If i Ever do another one there will be a publicly announced solution he said. Hoffman did not return Calls for his comment. There were no figures on How Many people bought videotapes of treasure which in addition to Selling at $59.95 copy in stores was shown on Cable Tele vision. Warner books producer of the print version ran off 147.000 copies to sell at $12.95. Cave Dweller tested Stefania Fellini the woman who recently emerged after a record 130 Days in a new Mexico Cave talks with or. Adrian Leblanc thursday about tests to determine whether she suffered any Bone loss during the isolation Experiment. Doctors said she appeared to be faring Well after her underground slay. Ship officers in Alaska must be alcohol free Anchorage. Alaska up1 mandatory alcohol testing for All Oil Tanker captains started thursday and the Sovi ets got an extended contract to keep their Oil spill response ship in place guarding America s chief Oil port. Tanker captains and every officer sail ing a Tanker out of Alaska have to take a breath test to leave the Dock said Tom Brennan spokesman for Alyeska pipe line service co., which operates the 800-mile trans Alaska pipeline and the Val Dez Oil terminal source of one fourth of american crude. Alcohol tests Are administered within one hour of each Tanker departure. Any skipper who refuses a breath test or flunks it will be refused Access to his own ship according to the rules. Another new slate Rule requires Alyeska to have a Large Oil skimming vessel ready to respond to any spill near Valdez or in Prince William sound. Alyeska extended the $ 15,000-pcr-Day contract of the soviet Union s Large Oil Skimmer and dredge the Vayda Hubsky until july 31, Brennan said. This comes in the Wake of the March 24 wreck of inc Exxon Valdez when an allegedly Drunken Caplain relinquished command of his full Tanker to an unauthorized mate who drove the off course ship into Well marked Bligh reef crack ing it open and spilling 10.9 million Gal Lons of crude Inlo Prince William sound. 25 Miles South of Valdez. The Vayda Hubsky is anchored Al Knowles head Aboul 35 Miles South of Valdez and will stay on duly in the role of protectors of the environment ready to Rush to a spill until Alyeska gets its own combination tug and Barge skim Mer in place at the end of july. Brennan said. Brennan said Security officers at the Alyeska Oil terminal began giving breath tests thursday to Tanker Skippers and any licensed officer who will Pilot tank ers out of Alaska Waters. Alyeska headquartered in Anchorage is owned by seven Oil companies including Exxon which must pay for Alyeska 10 Mecl Sale spill response orders. Alaska produces 2 million barrels of 011 daily and iwo or three tankers a Day come to Valdez to get Oil for . Refine Ries. The new requirements were imposed by the Alaska department of environmental conservation. Cisneros ends troubled term san Antonio a mayor Henry Cisneros one of the country s most visible hispanic leaders be fore his career was clouded by scandal and personal problems finished his last Day of work thursday. Cisneros 41, cleared out his desk and turned the Job Over to his predecessor Lila Cockrell who last month was elected again to the Post she held from 1975 to1981. She officially took Over thursday afternoon. In recent months Cisneros marital problems he admitted being in love with another woman and inc highly publicized reports of his son s ill health forced the usually outspoken mayor into a Low profile. Citing personal problems Cisneros announced last fall he would not run for a fifth term. After six years As a councilman and eight More As mayor Cisneros plans to join an asset management firm in san Antonio. His political Ful Urc remains Uncertain. I have no plan no timetable no deadline no office in mind Cisneros said thursday. Friends and colleagues say Cisneros will be remembered for working hard and bringing acclaim and Busi Nesses to the City. There s no question he has left his Mark on Sanantonio but he certainly has not Ridden off Inlo the Sunset said longtime Friend rep. Hugo Burlanga. Cisneros himself said in a newspaper interview i sup pose the thing thai i m proudest of is having worked wit san alonians to raise our sense of the City s role and to overcome the kind of inward looking tendencies. Some of inc things i wanted to do in terms of clearance of entire blocks and replacing them with new housing in the Central City have not yet occurred i he Ivy league educated san Antonio native. Who still jives in his Grandfather s House Isi credited with helping i break Down racial bar i riders Between hispanics i and anglos and inspiring i a generation of Young hispanics to finish school i and join the professional i ranks. Cisneros the Gap bal Wen clinic groups in a very articulate and Charis Matic Way said City councilman Weir Cisneros tenure the cite s general expenditures grew from $184 million in 1981 to $257 million last year. Tourism revenues grew from $654 million in 1980 to a projected $1.5 billion this year. And the number of jobs in san Antonio increased from 781,200 in 1980 to More Ihan 1 million in 1988. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. June 3, 1949 during negotiations in Paris the United states France and great Britain offered the soviets a five Point plan for restoring inc divided City of Berlin to unified four Power control. 30 years ago foday. June 3, 1959 according loan agreement signed the previous August the British governor in Singapore formally proclaimed Singapore to be a self governing state within the British Commonwealth. 20 years ago foday. June 3, 1969 Canadian defense minister Leo Cadieux announced Canada would withdraw its six squadrons of Star fighter jews based in Europe Over the a Cal three years in Consulia lion with its nato allies. I0 years ago foday. June 3, 1979 in its final report the House assassinations committee said president John f. Kennedy s death was probably due to a conspiracy and the possibility of involvement by organized crime figures could not be ruled out
