Fairfield voters put three new faces on the city council and one one the school board in balloting Saturday.

Elections were held in the cities of Fairfield and Wortham, and the Fairfield, Wortham and Dew school districts.

The City of Teague and Teague Independent School District did not have to conduct elections this spring because no contests developed for the posts to be filled.

Margin of victory for place four on the Fairfield city council was one vote with Leldon Childs unseating mayor pro tem Linda York. Childs received 158 votes, to 157 cast for Mrs. York.

A recount has not been requested in the Childs- York contest.

Joining the Fairfield council in place five is Lane Stripling, who defeated Jerry Brim by a 181-136 margin. Stripling will take the post occupied by Charles Easterwood, who decided not to seek a new term.

Largest margin of victory in the city election, 94 votes, was recorded by Kenneth Hughes who defeated incumbent Jo Olive Zickuhr. Hughes received 205 votes, to 111 cast for Mrs. Zickuhr.

Incumbent Fairfield ISD trustee Blake Robinson won re-election with 329 votes in a 4-way race for two school board seats.

The second seat goes to Eric Chavers with 279 votes.

Rounding out the FISD field are incumbent Jacob Carroll, 158, and Glen Price, 64.

Wortham voters decided to elect a new mayor, giving challenger Ken Gibbs 89 votes to 30 cast for incumbent Judy Edwards and 22 received by write-in candidate Rodney Price.

Winning a term on the city council is Emily Keathley, who received 93 votes to defeat C.R. "Butch" Davis, 77 votes, and incumbent Scott Batts, 63.

In a contest race for place two on the Wortham ISD board, Doug Miller received 107 votes to beat out three other hopefuls. Those vote totals are: Tony Lee, 28; Victoria Butcher, 21; and Gene Price, 15.

Wortham ISD incumbent Bill Capers received 148 votes in an uncontested election for place one.

Dew ISD held an election

to issue $3 million in maintenance bonds, funding

projects that are not part of day-to-day operations, primarily maintenance and replacement of capital items such as computers, or heating and airconditioning equipment, and school bus replacement.

Voters approved the bond issue by a 76-51 margin.

"We are not going to sell it all at one time," Dew superintendent Tom Weeaks says.

Votes in the bond election will be canvassed on May 19, then the district must wait a minimum of 30 days before issuing any bonds.

Reason for issuing maintenance bonds is because proceeds do not have to be shared under the state school finance plan—-DISD currently surrenders about 75 cents of every dollar it collects in property taxes because it is considered a property wealthy district.

New terms on the Teague city council go to uncontested candidates Mark Hargis in place two, Roger Brooke in place four and Shane Reeves in place five.

Teague ISD will seat three unchallenged candidates, Randy Bruce in place five, Deborah Lawrence in place six and Sushama Walker in place seven.