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* In a light turnout, voters in Bladen County turned down a bond issue of $2.5 million dollars for the construction of a new Bladen County Hospital.
* Dr. Dewey Raynor opened an Optometrist office in Elizabethtown.
* Elizabethtown attorney Jim Hill was named chairman of the Bladen County Republican Party.