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Here were some of the stories making news in Bladen County in 1973:
• Blueberry Queen Wanda Locklear appeared on the daytime TV show “The Dating Game.”
• Attorney W. Leslie Johnson joined the law firm of Hester and Hester in Elizabethtown.
• Top Mode Manufacturing of Elizabethtown filed bankruptcy.