INCUMBENT LOSES RE-ELECTION BID FOR NELL HOLCOMB SCHOOL BOARD

The lone incumbent among four candidates vying for seats on the Nell Holcomb Board of Education was defeated Tuesday, while a past board member was re-elected.

Bruce Domazlicky, an associate professor of economics at Southeast Missouri State University, finished fourth in his re-election bid for one of three, three-year terms.

Incumbent board member Kathy Stiehl Conway chose not to run for re-election.

Jim C. Wills, an employee of Procter and Gamble Co., was the top vote-getter in the Cape Girardeau County district with 212 of the 731 votes cast, or 29 percent, and L. Faye Farrow earned the second seat on the board with 208 votes, or 28 percent.

Robert W. Rubel, who served nine years on the school board before he was defeated for re-election three years ago, was put back on the board with 172 votes, or 23 percent.

Domazlicky finished with only 139 votes or 19 percent of the total.

Rubel also is an employee of Procter and Gamble, and Farrow has a business background and a degree in education. All three of the winners have children in the school district.