• Bladen County and its towns received $287,317 in Federal Revenue Sharing from January 1-June 30, 1972.
• James Melvin was elected President of the Elizabethtown-White Lake Chamber of Commerce.
• Dr. Clemenceau Lopes joined Dr. Pumphrey and Dr. Meinhardt in their Elizabethtown Medical Practice.
• Bladen Author Guy Owen Jr. released his latest book “The Flim Flam Man and the Apprentice Grifter.”