Here were some of the stories making news in Bladen County in 1974:
• Mrs. W.D. Cross of Elizabethtown celebrated her 85th birthday with a tea given by her children, John, Floyd, Annie Edge, Grace McDuffie, Gladys DeVane, and Alice Marshall.
• A lone gunman robbed Wachovia Bank in Tar Heel.
• Edgar McCulloch, editor of The Bladen Journal, died unexpectedly at the age of 57.
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