How do I transfer email contacts from my snow leopard computer to my iphone 4s?

How do I transfer my contacts from my mac pro OS 10.6.8 (no icloud) to my new iphone 4s?

Actually it's usually the other way around; if you attempt to sync your contacts on your computer and your Address Book is empty it will sync the empty contacts from your Mac to your phone, resulting in the contacts on your phone being deleted.  As long as you have at least one contacts on your Mac, when you initially sync you should get a Merge or Delete prompt for contacts.  Choose merge and the contacts on your phone and on your Mac will be merged and the merged contact list will be then be on both.
Another approach you can take if you're concerned about this is to enter the two contacts you have on your phone in Address Book on your computer, then without connecting your phone, open iTunes on your computer and go to Preferences>Devices and check "Prevent...from syncing automatically".  Then connect your phone and go to the Info tab of your iTunes sync settings, check Sync Contacts, then further down under Advanced...Replace Information on this iPhone, check Contacts.  Then click Apply at the bottom to sync your phone.  This will replace the contacts on your phone with those in Address Book on your computer.  (You can also open Address Book and go to File>Export>Contacts Archive before doing anything and save this on your desktop as a backup in case something goes wrong.)

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