Time and Tide
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55 years ago
it ofthfn?fJeip2/7’ *u43’ and 11 was Navy Day'In keePin8 with the spir
front nT,f ’ ^ PlJ0t that week ran two Pictures of Navy personnel on the
hnarH-P 8k- u- f rst of these was an artist’s impression of a white-hat
ooardmg ins ship, complete with sea bag, and the other was a photo of
u0, T Campbell, commanding officer of Caswell Section
ase, who had in three months raised the base’s district rating from last
place to the top position.
■ John D. O’Daniel had entered the Merchant Marine Academy at Kings
oint, Orton Plantation had been ranked as the second most interesting
ourist attraction in North Carolina — the Wright Memorial was first — by
e State magazine; and the Red Cross knitting contest was to close on
Saturday night.
45 years ago
ft was October 28, 1953, and the cover photo that week showed the
Southport Masonic Building. The same photograph was to be shown on
the area television station serving Southport. The local shrimping fleet had
lgh-tailed it for Florida; and the Southport school was prepping for the
annual Halloween carnival.
The current run of bluefish was still keeping local charter boatmen busy
and, to add to the confusion, king mackerel were showing up in large num
bers. The Brunswick Baptist Association had held its annual meeting; and
our editorial writer had sensed a downward trend in the economy.
35 years ago
The threat of Hurricane Ginny had caused the Frying Pan Lightship to
pull anchor and head for safe harbor, tying up at a dock in Wilmington. We
got a picture of that vessel as she came into the local harbor and it was in
the Pilot for October 30, 1963. The late-season storm had huffed and
puffed, and had left a lot of water in her wake, but no great wind damage
resulted.
The blow had caused Southport’s homecoming game with Bolivia to be
postponed until Monday night and rain still caught the halftime activities
in their final stage. Ellen Newell was crowned homecoming queen.
25 years ago
October 24, 1973, and the Southport Jaycees were on the front page,
with several of the members shown placing trash containers in strategic
locations in the downtown area. Not to be outdone in civic activity, six
members of the Green Thumb Garden Club were shown installing a hang
ing basket the club had donated to the Southport-Brunswick County
Library.
The Long Beach town board had asked for longer postal hours and more
post office mailboxes to serve residents of Oak Island; a six-foot alligator
had been caught, brought by The State Port Pilot office to have his picture
taken, then turned loose in the Cape Fear River near the moored Frying
Pan Lightship; the fact that municipal elections were upcoming was attest
ed by the number of announcements by candidates contained in our adver
tising columns that week.
20 years ago
There was joy at South Brunswick High School when the Cougars
defeated Hallsboro High for the first time, 6-0. That was big news in the
Pilot for October 25, 1978, and we had a picture of the crowd reaction,
plus a front-page photo of Sandy Randolph, homecoming queen. William
Turner, a member of the faculty of North Brunswick High School had
been named NCEA teacher of the year for Brunswick County.
“Hee Haw”' star Roy Clark had spent the night at Southport Marina
aboard his rie\v yacht Mean Queen IIP, “Pudding Lane,” a musical by
Lewis Hardee, was doing well as an off-Broadway show in New York; and
the North Carolina Symphony chamber orchestra was to appear in concert
at Hatch Auditorium at the Baptist Assembly the following Saturday
night.
15 years ago
A news flash on the front page of the Pilot for October 26,1983, report
ed an armed robbery which had occurred that morning at the Bolivia office
of UCB. We had a picture of grading operations at Brunswick County
Airport where the landing strip was being paved.
Scenes from the movie “Firestarter” were to be filmed at Orton
Plantation and a mock replica of the big house itself was being erected as
a burnt offering in the climactic scene; the N. C. Department of
Transportation had approved eight bridge replacement projects in
Brunswick County at a scheduled cost exceeding $20 million; and
“Heritage Days” were to be observed during the coming weekend at
Brunswick Tow if State Historic Site.
10 years ago
Work on the $6-million land trestle on the Sunny Point railroad through
Boiling Spring Lakes had been completed and Brig. Gen. Dane Starling of
the Military Traffic Management Command Eastern Area had officiated at
ribbon-cutting ceremonies. That was a story and photo in the Pilot for
October 26, 1988. The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council had
closed the king mackerel season and this action had drawn heated protest
from both commercial and sports fishermen.
Nothing had happened to the spot season and we had a picture of fish
ing poles as thick as pickets on a fence at Ocean Crest Pier; a new pro
posal had been made to erect an inn on the waterfront in Southport; and
from the “Not Exactly News” column that week we learned that there had
been no killing frost to that date — just like this year.
5 years ago
It was October 27, 1993, and state officials were still studying how to
combat the gypsy moth invasion which had commenced at Sunny Point in
July. A plan was expected by year’s end. Martin-Marietta opponents were
hoping- to adjust zoning rules to forestall limestone mining; CP&L had
perfected a plan to repair a cracked reactor shroud at the Brunswick
Nuclear Plant; and Southport’s Riverwalk had been dedicated on
Saturday.
Municipal elections were coming Tuesday, and candidates’ statements
of intent were featured prominently in that edition; road work on Yaupon
Drive was being touched up by painters that week; and though Long
Beach and Caswell Beach wanted Halloween celebrated on Saturday,
Yaupon Beach officials said they were leaving that decision up to citizens.

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Obituaries
Marie Agnes Mount Welsh of
Southport
Marie Agnes Mount Welsh died
Sunday, October 25, 1998.
She is survived by her husband,
Walter N. Welsh; four daughters. Merle
Anne Welsh of Rochester, NY; Karen
Marie Ettinger of Lake Oswego, OR,
Laurie Jean Witmeyer of Rochester, NY,
and Wendy Victoria Manley of Boume,
MA; and five grandchildren, Matthew
and Erin Witmeyer, Christian and
Amanda Ettinger and Lucas Nathaniel
Manley.
Mrs. Welsh was a 1934 graduate of
Rutgers University and spent all of her
life as an active environmentalist and
recycler. As the spouse of an Episcopal
priest for 58 years, her concern for the
poor and dispossessed was the mark of
her share of the ministry. As a citizen of
Yaupon Beach she started the first local
clean-up drive and served thousands of
hours as a volunteer at Dosher Memorial
Hospital in Southport.
The Burial Office and Episcopal
Eucharist was celebrated for her at St.
Philip’s Episcopal Church in Southport
today (Wednesday) at 2 p.m.
MRS. WELSH
Ottis Richard Wright Sr., 85, of Tabor City
Ottis Richard Wright Sr. of Tabor City, 85, died October 23, 1998, at Columbus
County Hospital, Whiteville. Bom February 12, 1913. he was the son of Mayon A.
Wright and Lillion Ward Wright.
He is survived by his widow, Dottie McKeithan Ward Wright of Nakina; one son,
Richard Wright and wife Jenny McKinnon Wright of Tabor City; and a daughter,
Martha Eagle and husband Gene Eagle of Southport, his children by Olive Battle
Wright, who died December 28, 1994; two sisters. Dessic Wright Spivey of Tabor
City and Lorena Wright Williams of Rocky Mount; grandchildren Elizabeth and
Sarah Wright of Tabor City and Eleanor, Lee Ann and Eugene Eagle of Southport.
Wright was a lifelong farmer in the Vinegar Hill community; a veteran of World
War 11 and attended Mill Branch Primitive Baptist Church.
Funeral services were held Monday at 2 p.m, at the Inman Funeral Home, Tabor
City. Officiating were elder George Paul and the Rev. Glenn Lane. Interment was in
the Wright Family Cemetery. Pallbearers were James Wright, Lavem Spivey, Donald
Spivey, Kenneth Coker, Henry Rowan and Gene McKeithan.
Memorials may be made to the Wright Cemetery Trust Fund, c/o Lavem Spivey,
6065 Richard Wright Road, Tabor City, NC 28463.
Lakes resident Ernest Conrad Bratt Jr.,
Emest Conrad Leonard Bratt Jr., 82, of Boiling Spring Lakes died Saturday,
October 24, 1998, at New Hanover Regional Medical Center.
Funeral mass was conducted at 11 a.m. Monday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church,
where he was a member, with Fr. Michael Connolly officiating. Burial will be at a
later date in St. Philip’s Episcopal Church Memorial Garden. Serving as pallbearers
were Roger Roy, Eric Roy, Chad Randall, John Randall, David Anderson and Doug
Spencer.
Bratt,was bom June 12, 1916, in Boston, MA. a son of the late Emest Conrad
Leonard Bratt and Emma Linnell Bratt, and moved here in 1981 from Charlotte. A
U. S. Navy veteran, he was former president of Southern Textiles Corp. of Charlotte.
Survivors include a son, Mark Bratt of Gastonia; iwo daughters, Karen A. Bard of
Little River, SC, and Patricia Mary Hurlbut o.Glen Cover, Long Island, NY; a broth
er, Kenneth Bratt of Derry, NH; two' jisters iorqhce Fenstermacher and Audrey
Nordley, both of Boiling Spring Lakes; sever grandchildren and one great-grand
child.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Mar’ Muir Bratt, in 1997.
Memorial contributions may be made to Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 5269
Dosher Cutoff Road, Southport, NC 28461.
Lyda V. Fuller, 69, of Shallotte
Lyda V. Fuller, 69, of Autumn Care of Shallotte, formerly of Henderson, died
Monday, October 26, 1998.
Bom March 22, 1929, she was a daughter of the late Chalmers E. and Lyda
Spencer Voils of Clarkton. She was preceded in death by her husband. Sidney White
Fuller.
Survivors include two daughters, Beverly F. Joumegan of Raleigh, Cynthia F.
Champion of Shallotte; a son, Joel S. Fuller of Valdosta. GA; two sisters. Melba V.
Savage of Fairmont and Grace V. Griffin of Wallace; six grandchildren and one
great-grandchild.
Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 11 a.m. in the Rose Chapel of First
United Methodist Church, Henderson. Burial will be in the Union Chapel United
Methodist Church Cemetery.
Brunswick Funeral Service of Shallotte is handling local arrangements.
John Vincent Kelly, 47, of Long Beach
■ John Vincent Kelly, 47, of Long Beach died Monday, October 26, 1998, at his res
idence. ;
A memorial mass will be conducted ata.m. Thursday at Sacred Heart Catholic
Church with the Rev. Eugene Gillis officiating.
Kelly was bom June 4, 1951, in Waynesburgh, PA. a son of Benjamin Frances and
Gertrude Cecilia Demaske Kelly of Point Marion, PA, and moved to Long Beach in
1990 from Waterford, CT. He was employed as a nuclear engineer with the Florida
Power Company.
In addition to his parents he is survived by his wife, Linda Faulk-Kelly of the
home; a son, Joshua Kelly of Waterford. CT; a brother, Benjamin Kelly of Soddy
Daisy, TN; two sisters, Diane England of Clarksville, PA, and Marcia Kelly of Point
Marion, PA. He was preceded in death by a brother, Steve Kelly, and by a sister,
Joann Ray.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, 3173
Wrightsville Avenue, Wilmington, NC 28403.
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tad made her home since 1950. She was bom May 22, 1915, and reared in the
-ongwood community of Brunswick County, a daughter of the late Henry D. and
\nnie Evans Jenrette.
She was the widow of William C. Krushas. Survivors include one son, W. C.
krushas Jr. of Pensacola, FL; two daughters, Burgette K. Mobley of New Haven, IL,
rnd Barbara Cowart of Roswell, GA; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren;
hree sisters, Gertha Ward of Southport, Loraine McKeithan McLamb of Little River,
5C, and Betty Hart of Wilmington; four brothers, Henry Jenrette of Rockledge, FL,
-His Jenrette of Smiths, AL, Howard Jenrette of Edgewater, FL, and Thomas Jenrette
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