This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bennett, Thiele, Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TMB.2ACI/3395 Message Board Post: The Banner Press, Marble Hill, MO April 21, 1960 Sheriff Jim Bennett Announces For Re-Election Jim Bennett, incumbent sheriff of Bollinger County will seek re-election at the primary election on Tuesday, August 2. Mr. Bennett is a native of Bollinger County. He received his education in the Lutesville school system and old Will Mayfield College at Marble Hill. Prior to being elected sheriff in 1956, he was engaged in farming in Bollinger County and for several years was employed by a major transportation company in Cape Girardeau. He is married and the father of two children, a son, Jimmie, 15, a sophomore in Woodland High School and a daughter, Mrs. Bobby Thiele of Leopold. His wife, Mrs. Nellie Bennett, a registered nurse, has for the past two years been employed as the Bollinger County School Nurse and Bollinger County Health Unit. Mr. Bennett's military service includes 33 months overseas. If re-elected, Mr. Bennett states that the duties of the sheriff's office will be conducted as in his present term, honest, impartial, and efficient law enforcemeent. Fair treatment to all--Special favors to none.