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Quick action by the Caney Fire Department saved a downtown Caney business from total ruin Tuesday night. Fire and smoke damaged the rear portion of Thornton Graphics, located in the 100 block of West Fourth Avenue, at about 6 p.m.  Fire was contained to the rear portion.An investigation continues into the fire, which was extinguished several minutes after firefighters arrived.  More details about the fire will be printed in the April 9th edition of the Montgomery County Chronicle. 

MONTGOMERY COUNTY APRIL 7th GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS

Fifty of the 51 precincts tabulated.   Havana City Council results not yet tabulated.  The * denotes the winners of the races.

Coffeyville Community College Board of Trustees:
* Blake Allen 985
* Ron Allison 906
Bill Lay 723
* Becky Medley 981
Betty Nellis 626
Max Williams 741

Coffeyville City Commission:
Don Edwards 360
Mark Frank 345
* Richard Gonzales 417
Rex Jerrim 259
* Pam Jones 669
* Jim Taylor, Sr. 476
Joseph Thomas 166
Mike Wilson 394

Coffeyville-USD 445 Board of Education:
* Bob Elznic 860
* Helen Ellerman 1114
* Jerry Hamm 1191

Independence Community College Board of Trustees:
Norman Chambers 631
Jim Dittmer 617
* Dan Dollison 639
* Lisa Drumeller 699
* Tim Emert 1089
Jim George 180
Gordon McDaniel 204
Tom Tyler 357

Independence Community College Board of Trustees, unexpired term:
* Bill Rollison 1066
Mickey D. Lewis 380

Independence City Commission:
Charley Hixon 270
* Rick Mott 698
* Tim White 628

Independence-USD 446 Board of Education:
Sandra Frisco 397
Kevin Sears 376
* Jim Kelly 894
* Jeff Chubb 894
* Dan Bryant 594

Cherryvale City Council, Ward 2:
Kenneth Corle 78
Jimmy Holt 36
* Lew Forman Jr. 240

Cherryvale City Council, Ward 1:
* Chad Wickham 296

Cherryvale-USD 447 Board of Education:
NOTE: These number do include all votes cast in USD 447, which includes Montgomery, Wilson and Neosho counties.
* Bruce Thornton 313
* Gina Booe 331
Michael S. Blake 162
Richard R. Basham 23
Jeff Menzer 171
Jasmin Forman 206
Robert John 135
* Kenny Baker 208
Randell Studebaker 188

USD 447 Board of Education, unexpired term:
* Tina Cunningham  366

Caney City Council, Ward 4:
* Roger Hawthorne 262
Larry Vanderhider 56

Caney City Council, other council:
* Dale McBride (mayor) 170
* Dan Johnston (ward 1) 34
* Joe Taylor (ward 2) 30
* Kelly McIntosh (ward 3) 43

Caney-USD 436 Board of Education, District B, Position 3:
Tim Rigdon 187
* Darlene Sanders 271

Caney-USD 436 Board of Education, District A, Position 2:
* Mark Artherton 342
Rick Pell 95

Caney-USD 436 Board of Education, District A, Position 1:
* Robert Hawthorne 262
Write-in votes 56

Dearing City Council:
* Kenneth Campbell 27
* Phillip Helt 26
* Brian Loomis 24
* Terri Bishop 26
* Michael D. Clark 27

Elk City Council:
* Johnny D. Goul (mayor) 35
Write-in votes (mayor) 31
*Michele Anglin 40
Melinda Bennett 29
Everett F. Bower 22
Willard Brashier 22
Hilda Clem 3
* Kimberly High 40
* Joshua Mills Johnson 60
* Johnny McElwain Jr. 47
* James L. Wilburn 51

Liberty City Council:
* Bruce Main (mayor) 14
* Robert Hobbs (council) 9
Numerous write-in votes

Havana City Council, Mayor:
Dennis R. Hodges 0
Alan L. Phillips 0

Havana City Council:
Irvaleen Gartrell 0
Carol Powell 0
Melissa Watson 0

Tyro City Council:
* Wayne Blakemore (mayor) 24
* Kelly D. Grayum 18
* John Knox 17
* Lucille Ellen McConnell 15
* James R. Orcutt 23

BY ANDY TAYLOR

Caney Valley High School’s baseball team put itself in the state records book on Monday night.

Caney Valley’s 42-26 victory over Eureka — that’s not a misprint — established several state records and also tied an existing record in the annals of Kansas high school baseball.

Ted Hayes of the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame said the 42 runs scored by Caney Valley in the second game of Monday’s doubleheader ties a state record for most runs by one team in a game. Blue Valley Stillwell set that record in a 1999 game.

Hayes said the game’s results also established several new records, including most runs by a losing team (26) and most runs by two teams in one game (68).

Caney Valley won the first round of Monday’s twinbill by a 17-1 score in three innings. That means the Bullpups scored a total of 59 runs in a doubleheader, which, Hays, said, establishes a new state record.

Les Zoch, Caney Valley head baseball coach, said a high volume of errors by both teams led to the marathon scoring match in a bone-chilling Eureka stadium on Monday night.

“It wasn’t pretty for either team,” said Zoch.

The game lasted more than three hours, and the doubleheader took almost six hours to complete.