Here were some of the stories making news in Bladen County in 1974:
• Clyde Jordan was the Kiwanis Citizen of the Month in Elizabethtown.
• A ground breaking ceremony was held for the new shopping center Clark Brothers was building on S. Popular St. in Elizabethtown. The shopping center would cover six acres.
• Bladen County’s new tax rate was set at 91 cents per hundred.
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