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Bladen County recorded it’s 19th traffic death of the year.
Leon Ricks of Elizabethtown was appointed President of the Bladen County Cancer Crusade.
Bladen County received $30,000 from the state for secondary road construction.
The Annual 4-H Awards Program had 378 exhibits on display at Bladen Elementary School. Overall Achievement Awards were given to Mickey McLaughlin, Alice Miller, Faye Allen and Earl Miller III