The Virginian-Pilot 
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Saturday, October 29, 1994             TAG: 9410290191
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA 
TYPE: Election Roundup 
SOURCE: BY ANNE SAITA, STAFF WRITER 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   45 lines

ELECTION ROUNDUP

The Pasquotank County sheriff's race is one of only four in a 13-county area that is being contested. In all counties except Pasquotank, Dare, Beaufort and Tyrrell, only one name is listed on the Nov. 8 ballots, and in most cases it's the incumbent.

The sheriff's race in Beaufort County has drawn attention because of Republican Lorraine Voliva Linton, one of three women running for the law enforcement seat in North Carolina.

Six women threw their names into the hat last May, but only three survived the primaries. Linton, a housewife and student, was one of them.

She has admitted she has an uphill struggle to unseat Nelson L. Sheppard, who has been at the helm of the Beaufort County Sheriff's Department since 1981.

A recent graduate of the Basic Law Enforcement Academy at Beaufort Community College, Linton has no law enforcement experience.

Sheppard has been a police officer for almost 30 years.

Tyrrell County voters will have to choose between current Democratic sheriff Darryl Liverman and challenger Roy W. Brickhouse, an unaffiliated candidate.

The Dare County sheriff's race will pit current sheriff Bert Austin, a Democrat, against former Nags Head police chief Charles Dail of Kitty Hawk.

In all other one-man contests in Northeastern North Carolina, only Glenn Brinkley of Currituck County and David Lane in Perquimans are first-timers.

Brinkley beat the May Democratic primary winner in a runoff election for the seat long held by W. Norman Newbern Jr., who didn't run for re-election. Lane defeated incumbent Joseph Lothian last spring.

Other candidates include Bertie County's J. Wallace Perry; Joe G. Jones of Camden County; Fred A. Spruill in Chowan County; Elmo Benton of Gates County; Winfred Hardy Jr. of Hertford County; Hyde County's David T. Mason; and Jim Whitehurst of Washington County.

KEYWORDS: ELECTION CANDIDATE NORTH CAROLINA by CNB