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The Bladen County School Board set the yearly budget for schools at $3,051,652.
There was a Girl Scout Day Camp being held at Jones Lake.
The Clarkton Lion’s Club elected Harold Ingram President and the Lioness Club elected Margaret Ingram their President.
A vote to establish an ABC store was set at White Lake.
The town of Elizabethtown adopted a budget of $1,140,323. The tax rate was 77 cents per hundred.