Nov. 18 issue

1959

A fire destroys two taverns – the Rendezvous and Yamato – as well as the Main Gate Barber Shop and the Havelock Loan Company.

1960

Havelock commissioners discuss garbage collection, street lights and police protection in their first meeting after a lawsuit against the city’s incorporation is dismissed.

Workers from Carteret-Craven Electric Cooperative transplant an 18-foot evergreen tree from the Splinterville area to the community park. The tree will serve as the city Christmas tree.

1961

A fire causes heavy damage to Wade’s Shoe Store in the Commercial Shopping Center.

1963

St. Paul’s Lutheran Church begins construction on a 2,200 square-foot addition for the church’s Christian day school and kindergarten.

1965

The first phase of a three-phase traffic light plan becomes operational, with new traffic signals going up at the intersection of N.C. 101 and Main Street.

1969

Havelock commissioners approve a ban on junk vehicles.

1970

A report lists the cost to supply city sewer service to the remaining 44 homes on Hollywood Boulevard at $52,000.

City recreation and school leaders meet to discuss the use of four acres near the new high school for tennis courts, a stadium and baseball field.

Highway workers begin installation of a new traffic signal at Chadwick Avenue and West Main Street.

1971

Bruce Tuttle, 14, shows off a baby squirrel he rescued and saved during Hurricane Ginger.

1972

Work begins on the new fire station for the Township Six Volunteer Fire Department on U.S. 70.

Dean W. Lindley is named Havelock's new city manager.

1974

The Retired Officers Association forms in Havelock and receives its charter.

1976

Cherry Point leases about 20 acres along Cunningham Boulevard near Havelock Middle and Elementary schools to Havelock for use as a recreation park.

1979

Commissioners vote 5-0 against a proposed teen curfew, drawing applause from Havelock High students who presented a petition signed by 274 students who opposed the measure.

1982

The Craven County Board of Education agrees to transfer 14 acres to Havelock, which has plans to construct a new public safety complex on the site.

1983

The Craven County Board of Education passes a motion to ask the county for $2.5 million for construction of a new elementary school in Havelock.

The Woodhaven Drive extension from Belltown Road to East Main Street opens to traffic.

The state’s transportation improvement plan calls for a U.S. 70 bypass around Havelock similar to the one first proposed in 1977. The $13.9 million, nine-mile highway is expected to be completed by 1996.

1988

Havelock’s oldest citizen, Roberta W. McKinney, celebrates her 100th birthday with a birthday card from President Ronald Reagan.

1991

Arson is suspected in a fire that destroys the press box at the Havelock High School football stadium.

1993

The Havelock News begins printing two editions per week.

The Department of Defense announces plans to add 4,000 personnel and 200 F/A-18s to Cherry Point after a two-year environmental study period.

1994

Derek Ball, a fourth-grade student at Arthur W. Edwards Elementary, receives a letter from President Bill Clinton in response to a letter Ball sent to the White House complaining about the treatment of whales.

1996

The Havelock Board of Commissioners votes to spend $182,850 to erect lights on three ball fields at the Havelock Recreation Complex.

1998

Personnel from the telecommunications division of Cherry Point’s Naval Air Depot assist the British Royal Navy in the first-ever live Tomahawk missile test launch in California.

2000

Jesse R. Lewis, 85, a member of Havelock’s first Board of Commissioners in 1959, dies after a prolonged illness.

2001

Former Neuse Riverkeeper Rick Dove is presented the 2001 Nancy Susan Reynolds Award for his seven years of advocacy for the Neuse River.

2002

Naval Air Depot personnel, city employees, and volunteer Marines place a refurbished A-4M Skyhawk in front of the Hampton Inn.

2004

A main natural gas distribution line is put in through Havelock.

2005

Rainfall from Tropical Storm Gamma causes some flooding in Havelock.

2006

Diane Miller is named the city’s first grants writer and public information officer.