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The Bladen County Board of Commissioners set the county budget for 1971-72 at $3,154,424.60 and reduced the tax rate from $1.69 to $1.57.
Fire destroyed a Board of Education maintenance department shop at Bladen Central School.
Phillip H. Monroe was appointed Assistant County Supervisor for the Farmers Home Administration.