VOLUME VII
'• 'lone" literally
Noi^h Carolina. 8h
Eastern Carolina”, for she lit
erally had it to the whirling
palm of her hand and after toy
ing with It for a terrifyingly
long M hows ttoeed it aside,
much as a child tosses a toy;
broken, bruised and temporarily
of, not-much, use to anyone.
But like moot toys tossed aside
by petulant brats, Eastern Caro
lina was not tom beyond re
pair : and already thousands of
men and women are busy pateh
up, sweeping out the mud and
debris that"tone” brought into
their homes And businesses.
fay this terrible Wench from the
South (Atlantic. As one moves
east from Kinston evidence of
the power of this ninth hurri
cane of the 1956 season becomes
much more readily apparent.
In Trenton, dozens of the
Stately old trees that once
adorned its main street were
blown over, fund miraculously,
only afew homes were damaged
to any great extent.
Water was"rar more damag
ing than the winds of lone.
Nearly live laches of rain whip
ped by winds ranging from 86
miles per hour at Kinston to 1C7
miles per hour at Cherry Feint
piled up in the streets, swept in
to houses and storage barns.
This water damage will be far
higher than the actual damage
done by tie winds. ; h ■
Perhaps the second highest
damage will result from the los
oil eleetrlca|. current for long
period. Frozen food lockers and
other .types of elefetrtaaT storage
for food were knocked out and
were still out to a vast majority
of the ares, lying east of Trenton
and South of Elizabeth City.
Added to this wag aH-time
high waiter in many areas, re
sulting liom thit deluge of rain
brought ashore toy “tone". Trent
Streets where the flooding Adkln
drainage canal crept into sev
eral dozen homes. These people
spent the night . In 3. H. Samp
son School where' load- relief
organizations tarnished food fend
sleeping faculties. V? •
In ’Renton every Negro home
In the eastern end of town was
esraouated/and some white resi
dents living along .the Trent
River side of town moved in with
friends on higher ground.
It was Hie opinion of many
observers that the overall dam
age to' Eastern Carolina by,
“lone” was greater .than the com
bined { furies of “Connie and
Diane” and many also fslt
“lone’s” -reckless driving was
more costly to Eastern Carolina
than .even “Hazel” of infamous
-last October. ,
1 The water damage to crops la
pointed up as the principal rea
son fear believing that ‘Tone's”
damage was worse than “Ha
wiW’.
The com crop had already
been struck; an almost total blow
by "Connie and Wane” and now
“lone” made it unanimous to, a
big percentage of the farms of
heavy
Carolina. Also
to espectedtoy mogt farm
to*>aoco stored hi
penthouses, since few, If any,
storage places were tight enough
to prevent water beating through
and reaching the stored crop.
This, the fourth severe hurri
cane to hit Eastern Carolina in
less than a year, damaged more
property,. made more people
Continued op page 8
Powell Bill Funds for Streets Distributed
Trenton $1,782; Kinston Gets $63,665
am pointed to the in
creased gasoline revenue which
upped” the Powell Bill figure this
year. The fund comes from a
l-2c per. gallon of the total or
gross 6c gasoline tax (less re
funds) during fiscal 1954-oij,
when the gross State gasoline
tax totalled $68,594,600.40.
Half of the total allocation is
dlvidtd among all qualified
municipalities on the basis of
population. The per capita rate
is $1.88 this year.
The other half of the total al
location is divided among all the
qualified municipalities on the
basis of relative mileage of non
state system or local streets
which comply with the Act. The
mileage rate this year is $472.65
per mile.
As off July X, 1995, the 390
participating towns had 6,041.94
miles of non-highway system
streets. Their total population,
according to the 1950 census was
1,902)223:
Graham said, '‘Allocations may
be made only to legally incor
porated cities and towns which
are active and eligible and whose
officials have qualified the mu
nicipality by submitting, certi
fied statements and maps prior
to the limiting date, the third
under
the laiw. A few active incorpora
ted towns were hot eligible due
to some technicality. There are
also many populous communi
ties which have never chosen
to incorporate and function as
municipalities.” '
Payments will range this year
from $360 for Falkland in Pitt
County to $416,618 for Charlotte.
Other allocations, figured to the
nearest dollar include:
Goldsboro, $76,288; Greenville,
$62,881; Kinston, $63,665; New
Bern, $49,936; Raleigh, $195,409;
Rocky Mount, $97,686;' Tarboro,
$30,507; Washington, $33,363;
Wilmington, $131,536; Wilson,
$81422.
Other allocations to corporate
cohununiittes in. this area) in
cludes the following: Dover $2,
128.18, Grlfton $4,241.83, La
Grange $7,998.11, Maysville $3,
997.30, Pink Hill $2,421.05, Pol
looksville $2,087.82, Rlchlands
$3,403.75, Seven Springs $1,007.70,
Snow mil $3,150.36 and Trenton
$1,782.73.
This to another of the hage
trees in Trenton that hO be
at ffisasisffifi
im« iB TM flf w0
rrento&.JElciaeiitary School,!*
fortunately hut cut of
reach of the school and Inflicted
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This is the home ot Mr. and;
Mrs. Dave Phillips near Sharon
Church in Upper Lenoir County
where slifht damage resulted
from lone-blown trees Monday.
The Phillips Family was home
at the time but stayed on after
I
the trees had fallen, since nor
holes were knocked in the house.
This looks a lot worse than it
really is, but it’s still a pretty
frightening experience to have
tree? this size laying over on
one’s home, i ’
This is, or was a tractor be
longing to J. Carl Jones of
Lettoir County’s -Vance Town
difp fthe
u(H! : ’K!-' VWv'l"Tm."S. i-KUnW
Monday when lone leaned this
large tree over on It with crush
ing results. Slight damage was
Hurricane lone was the most
damaging wench to visit Tren
ton in as long as its oldest resi
dents can recall. Dozens of the
stately old trees that line the
main street in Trenton were
blown over, but an amazing few
were damaged fry these dying
giants. ThemoRt severely dam
aged home was that of Mrs.
Pearl Hammond, pictured above.
This was the scene in the
Southeastern, seetton of Trenton.
Tuesday afternoon as the last
of the Nefro families In that
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*wni furor ior u&e uura m
In recent weeks* bad forced
people from their homes, tc
shelter with friends and
three until they could yet
Into their hone and begii
difficult task of “drying on
cleaning up”.
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