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• The first snow and ice of the year brought things to a halt in Bladen County.
• 22 high school seniors were being interviewed for the Morehead Scholarship at the Bladen County Board of Education. Edwin Link of Clarkton High School was Bladen’s nominee.
• The East Bladen High School Band was to march in President Richard Nixon’s inaugural parade.