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*Plans for the establishment of fire districts in the county were presented to the Bladen Board of Commissioners.
*Vance Clark of Elizabethtown, a local farm equipment dealer for over 28 years, filed for the Bladen County Board of Commissioners. *W.J.. (Billy) Hair, Superintendent of Bladen County Schools, was honored as February “Citizen of the Month” by the Elizabethtown Kawanis Club.