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DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 2, 1990                   TAG: 9005020256
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: INDEPENDENCE                                LENGTH: Short

INCUMBENTS VICTORIOUS IN INDEPENDENCE VOTE

Independence Mayor Charles Austin easily turned back a challenge from French P. "Jack" Blevins in Tuesday's election by a vote of 170 to 52.

Voters also returned all six members of Independence Town Council to the governing body. Herbert Anderson and Frank Dowell were the top council vote-getters, each with 168 votes; Paul Byrd had 157; Gordon Miniclier, 143; Ellis Reeves, 164; and Clair Yoder, 126.

Newcomer Cecil Adams, with 110 votes, failed to unseat any of the incumbents.

- Southwest bureau 


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