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Bladen County unemployment was at 16.7%.
The Carvers Creek chapter of the NAACP held Jubilee Day.
Fred Tate of Elizabethtown was presented a special award as treasurer of the Corn Growers Association of North Carolina.
West Point Pepperell began an expansion of their plant in Elizabethtown.