
Here were some of the stories making news in Bladen County in 1975:
• Several carloads of citizens from Bladen County went to Raleigh to protest high electric rates.
• Waccamaw Bank announced that they would open a branch in Elizabethtown.
• The team of Mr. and Mrs. Wilton Melvin and son Michael won a golf tournament by shooting a 70 at White Lake Golf Course.