As Dial-a-Cab Chairman Brian Rice pulled the final ball out of the bag and read out the name Terry, five heads dropped, but a sixth – that of Terry Hamston (B24) – looked as though he had won the lottery! It wasn’t quite the scale of a lottery win, but Call Sign’s prize of a 42inch plasma television was valued at around £1400 and wasn’t bad for a day’s work!
   Call Sign’s competition ran over two issues (April and May) when we asked readers to complete a crossword puzzle. We then picked three winners from each of the two months and put the six into a grand shoot-out final held in the Brunswick House Boardroom. Each winner’s name was put onto three balls and all 18 balls were put into a bag and mixed up. The overall winner would be the first person whose name was pulled out three times.
   The three winners from the first puzzle were Dave Humphryes (A69), Theresa Spears (DaC IT dept) and Terry Hamston (B24) and they were joined by the second batch of three – Steve Crisp (D52), Gary Heard (Y07) and Ken Aisthorpe (T49).
   After 5 minutes of nerve-jangling tension, all of the finalists were on

TERRY WINS THE TELLY!

Brian Rice picks a ball out pf the bag as Allan Fisher waits to hear who's name it is.
Inset: Terry Hamston realises that he's won.

either one or two balls except
Dave Humphryes who had none! Then Brian pulled another ball out of the bag and read out the name Terry and we had a winner!
   Everyone agreed that the competition had been fun – especially when Call Sign revealed that we were giving the five losers a crisp £50 note as a consolation

prize. Meanwhile a delighted Terry phoned his wife and asked her to guess what size television screen they’d be watching in the future!

As for Dave Humphryes who ended up with no balls: “It isn’t often you can end up with no balls but still enjoy yourself! Well done to Terry…”