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* The Economic Development Administration approved a $600,000 loan to Clarkton Mills to build a fabric plant in Clarkton.
* Lem Smith of Clarkton was named to the Bladen County Board of Education to replace the late Luther C. Clark of Clarkton.
* The Town of Elizabethtown adopted a tax rate of 90 cents per hundred.