Hold on to your hats! The Dietrich Idaho election results are in!

For City Council, 4-year term:

Don Heiken 41 votes

Wanless Southwick 41 votes

Fred Hill (the newcomer) 41 votes

The successful candidate for the City Council, 2-year term, also got 41 votes.

But that is no problem.

No tie there!

The population of Dietrich Idaho is 175 and there are 117 registered voters. Seventy-one of them voted, casting votes for two of the 4-year seats.

Now this was supposed to work like this: One of the 4-year candidates would lose.

This whole thing has the town in a snigwiggle; what should they do? (Go ahead! Use my new word.)

Well, the town fathers thought that this might happen some day. In their wisdom they said,