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• The 200th birthday of the town of Elizabethtown was to be celebrated October 4-9, 1973.
• Bladen County 4-H members won 150 blue ribbons during the annual 4-H Achievement Program.
• William Edwin Link, an 18 year old Clarkton High School senior, was chosen as Bladen County’s nominee for the Morehead Scholarship.