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• A new Miss Bladenboro, Rita Skinner, was crowned during a ceremony in Bladenboro.
• Charles Dunn of the North Carolina SBI was speaking in Elizabethtown on the growing problem of drugs in southeastern North Carolina.
• The Clarkton Tobacco Festival was going on with co-chairmen Ronnie Tart, president of the Clarkton Jaycees, and Hubert Bryan of the Clarkton Merchants Association.