DEPUTY WINS GOP NOD TO FACE SHERIFF

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- A man who worked as a Bollinger County sheriff's deputy for a year will be the Republican candidate for sheriff against incumbent Democrat Sheriff Dennis Willis in November.

Terry G. Wiseman emerged from a field of four Republican candidates in Tuesday's primary with 1,010 votes, more than double his nearest competitor, Barry N. Hughes, who finished with 498 votes. Other candidates and their primary votes were Jimmy G. Bollinger with 179 and Frank Dye with 49.

Willis, who defeated an incumbent four years ago to win the general election, was unopposed in the Democratic Primary. He polled 388 votes.

The Bollinger County Commissioner's race was narrowed to four candidates, from 11.

Junior E. Cook, commissioner for 10 years through 1996, will be the Democratic candidate in the other district after defeating Kelvin Yount, 282-150.

Cook will face Wayne Whitener in the November election. Whitener emerged from a three-man Republican field, with 385 votes, narrowly defeating Ralph Collier, with 344 votes, and Dan Hovis, with 125 votes.

Larry P. Vangennip, a retired Missouri Highway Department supervisor, won the Republican nomination in District 1 of the commissioner's primary, narrowly defeating a former commissioner, Elwood Mouser, by 14 votes, 340 to 326. Other candidates in the Republican primary were Adrian Shell, with 152 votes, and John F. Johnson Jr., with 90.

Vangennip will face Democrat Junior W. Long,, who defeated Bob Gray, 165 to 145.

Two local races were unopposed in the primary. Democrat Harold Vannoy received 516 votes for assessor and will face Republican James M. Bollinger, who received 1,474 votes; Gene Ward, Democrat for coroner received 601 votes and will face Republican Charles Hutchings, who gathered 1,443 votes.

Two candidates have no opposition for the general election. John W. Reilly, Democratic candidate for surveyor, had 558 votes, and Winford C. Brown, Democratic candidate for public administrator, had 569 votes.