Here were some of the stories making news in Bladen County in 1973:
• The Economic Development Administration approved a $300,000 loan to help establish a furniture manufacturing plant in Clarkton.
• The Bladen County Sheriff’s Department, town cops, and the SBI arrested nine people at a “Pot Party” on Pine Ridge in Bladenboro.
• The AYA Youth Singers of Asheville presented a musical program at Elizabethtown Baptist Church.
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