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Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper PRICE TEN CENTS Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 16, 1959 Seventieth Year Pages Today Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 m figure (or Greater Xing* Mountain I* derived from tlie H5S King* Mountain city directory consul. The city Unfits figure Is from tne United States census of 1SS0. Local News Bulletins X-RAY UNIT Cleveland County Mobile X Ray unit will be in front of Be Ik’s Department Store Thursday from 10 to 12 and 1 to 4 p. m., it has been announ ced. KIWANIS PICNIC Kings Mountain Kiwanians will picnic at Lake Momtonia Thursday alt 7 p. m. The meal will be served by the Hickory House of Charlotte. CLASS REUNION The Bethware high school Class of 1956 will gather for a reunion Monday, July 20, at 6:30 alt Maple Springs Lake near Bethware. The activities will include swimming at 6:30, supper at 7:30, and recreation following. REUNION The classes of 1922, 1923, and 1924 of Cherryville high school will hold a joint class reunion Sunday, July 19, at 4 p. m. at Cherryville Woman’s Club. A picnic supper will be served. FAIRVIEW LODGE An emergent communication of Pairview Lodge 339 AP&AM will be held Monday nighlt at 7:30 p. m. for work in the first degree, according Ito announce ment by Secretary Thomas Tindall. BUILDING PERIMT A permit was issued Tues day to Leroy Blanton to build a one-sitory frame house on W. Kimg street between CansLer and Tracy sitreeits. Estimated coat of the 5-room structure is $5,000. WARLICK BETTER A. P. Warlick, who under went an operation at Gaston Memorial hospital last Friday, was reported improved Tues day by a member of his fam ily. .. . Church Installs Air-Conditioning First Frestoytterdan church has Installed air-conditioning in the sanctuary, chapel, and in several Classrooms. Dr. Paul Ausley, the pastor who made the announcement, also said the interior of thte church is getting a new coat of paint and the painting is expected to be completed soon. "We are all pleasted at the com pletion of the air-conditioninig pro. gram and with the near - ootnpfle tion of work on the interior of our church,” the pastor noted. Hickory Juniors Vandalize Gym Hkkory’s American Legion Juniors took their eliminiattion here Tuesd'ay might the hard way. (Same of thfe players reportedly took-out their anger <m window glasses and mirrors in the dress a ing room alt the Central High ■ School Gym here. ” A mirror and several window pqn.es werte broken after the game, and several pop bottles were broken in the locker and shower room. The Hickory team usted the west end dressing room which, normally is the girls quar ters during basketball season. Business Manager John Gam ble was authorized to make an es timate of the damage and neplacte the same out of local Legion jun ior baseball funds. The statement of damages then will be stent to the Hickory American Legion Post for payment. The vandalism at the gym fol lowed the wild game here in which Kings Mountain elimina ted Hickory, 10-5, and after rocks, reportedly, Were thrown at the Hickory t hus parked at the Sta dium. A host of lingering fans milled around the bus before it itetumed to the gym. Teacherage Group Names Mrs. Ormand Mrs. Lloyd Ormand will as sume management of the Kings • Mountain teacherage about Sep tember 1, W. K. Mauney, chair man of the Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Library and Teacher ige committee, announced Wed day. Mrs. Ormand will succeed Mrs ill Carpenter, who has man ed the teacherage since 1950. Mrs. Carpenter will continue manager until September. Other members of the library mmittee are J. R. Davis and n H. Bridges. Bridges Suggests City Sewage Fee Mayor Also Asks Outside-City Water Rate Hike Mayor Glee A. (Bridges sugges ted te the board of commissioners ait last week’s July mteeting impo sition of a sewage fee on citizens enjoying city sewage service and also suggested increasing water rates to customers outside the cilty limits. , Mayor Bridges did waft spell out hlis ideas about what thie sewage fee Should We, nor how much the outside-city water rates should be increased. However, he did suggest that the sewagfe fee be a percentage of a customer’s water brill. The city now charges outside city water customers a ten per cent surcharge. On suggestion of Commissioner Boyce Gault, the Commission took no action. Mr. Gault suggested an investigation for feasibility and a rate study. Mayor (Bridges had pointed to Shelby’s recent adoption of a sewage fee and fact of Cherry vine’s imposition of a sewage fee as examples of neighboring com munities who wtM Charge for sew er service. In addition to imposing a sew age ifee, Shelby, Sin a financial squeeze, also uppted the advator em tax rate by 25 cents per $100 valuation, and imposed a 100 percent surcharge on outside city residential waiter customers. Charlotte, also in a financial squeeze, recently upped water rates to all customers. It was the second timte Mayor Bridges has asked for a sewage fee. Early in Bridges Administra tion III, the Mayor recommended a sewagte fee. However, the com mission declined to Impose one or grounds a hardship would result for many 'users and on further grounds the added revenue was not nectessary In Kings Mountain, sewage ser vice is one otf the City’s virtually “deadweight” services, as the on ly 'income from this service is de rived from tap fees assessed when sewage service is provided. The currtent city sewage tap fee Is $35. Falls To Lead Bethany Revival Rev. W. Nale Falls, pastor of Glenwood ARP jChruch of Char lotte, will begin a series of re vival services Monday at Beth any Associate Reformed Presby terian Church. Services will be held nightly at 8 o’clock through July 26, Rev. F. W. Sherrill, the pastor, has announced. Prayer services will be held each evening at 7:45 p. m. in the church sanctuary. ON DEAN'S LIST Miss Nonma Kay Hamrick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Da vid Hamrick, was listed on the Dean’s list for the past semes ter at Guilford College where she was a freshman. Merchants Set Annual Gathering The annual employee-em ployer summer picnic of the Kings Mountain Merchants As sociation will be held Wednes day afternoon, August 5. Tickets are $1.50 each and reservations should be made with Mrs. Ida Joy, Merchants Association secretary. Women of Bethany ARP Church near Clover, S. C. will serve the meal. Calvin Fanis Pleads Guilty Walter Calvin Parris, 15, Dixon Community youth, plead guilty in Cherokee County circuit court Wednesday to a charge otf armed robbery of a Blacksburg store. His accomplice, Albert Smith, 17, Who lives on a farm ntear Blacksburg and recently moved there With ihis 'family from Chi cago, 111., also plead guilty. Date Wednesday afternoon, ac cording to E. A. Harrill, the Far ris’ youth’s attorney, Circuit Judge ©rude Dilttlejohn had not sentenced the lad and he remained in Cherokee County jail, where he has been since his apprehen sion about 45 minutes after the robbery several months ago. Attorney Harrill said Judge Lit tlejohn stated he Wanted to con sider the fadts further before passing sentence. Mr. Harrill said the two youths entered a variety store 'in Blacks burg, S. C., with Smith brandish ing a pistol. They bound and gag ged the Store manager, then gave the same treatment to persons Cn ering the store. Smith handed the weapon to Parris, hie said,, while Smith robbed the cash register oi in excess of $180. “They don’t know yet Why they did it,” Mr. Harrill said. He said he had a birth certifi cate showing thfe Fanis’ youth’s age to be 15. R. A. McGill Died Wednesday Robert Altexander 'McGill, 78, died at 5:45 Wednesday afternoon -at Kings Mountain Hospital. Funeral will be held at Boyce Memorial ASRiP church, of Which he was an elder and charter mem ber, at 4 o’clock Friday afternoon. The body will lie in State for an hour prior to the funeral. Mean time, the body will remain at Har iris Funeral (Home. Burial will be in Mountain Rest cemetery. He wais a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McGill. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Aninife Mae Ware McGill, three brothers, T. P. and N. F. McGill, Kings Mountain, and James Mc Gill, Albemarle, and two sisters, Mrs. J. O. Ross, Charlotte, and Mrs. Earl Carpenter, Kings Mountain. . The final 'rites will be conduct ed by (Dr. W. B. Pnessly, the pas, tor, andi Rfev. Earl Armstrong oi Gastonia. African Natives Jealous Of USA And Fearful, Ex-Missionary Says "Africa looks to tine United States with fear, hesitation, and jealousy,” Rev. George Moore told members of the Lions club Tues day night. He declared Africa is in a peri od of great change and stated, “Thesb people need us." Rev. Mr. Moore, pastor of Res urrection. Lutheran church, is a former missionary to Liberia, West Africa. His comments pre ceded showing of films he made during his tenure as a missionary. The minister noted that major ity of Plrotesttamt churches will place particular emphasis on Af ri ca during 1960’s foreign missions work. He said missionary work in Africa produces results slowly. There are thousands of tribes and as many dialects, he said, and the native chiefs don’t partic ularly Mke their situations dis turbed by the inroads of Christi anity. To a question, hte replied that the native religion is “ani mism”, a worship of “Spirits” fen nature. In the films some native wo men were nude from waist up, while others worb full-length wrappings. He explained that the more decorous natives had em braced Christianity. In his Liberian Station, near the Equator, the basic diet is rice. Other notes on West African culture by Mr. Moore: Women and men have a divis ion of work, in which the men clear "new ground'’ for rice plan ting, build .the homes, and do the hunting. A woman cares for her children, plants the rice, harvests it, cleans it, and attends to all the household duties. She also catches fish, another diet staple. The natives have goats, cows, and other meat animals, but the . favorite meat is monkey. I Trial marriage is an accepted i practice and a man, if he can af j ford it, can have several wives. It is customary for the man tc purchase a wife-to-be from her fa ther at a cost equivalent to $40 American dollars, payable in mo ney, goods, Stock or labor. Disease is prevalent and chil dren suffer from hernias, attribu table to malnutrition. The native alcoholic drink is i cane juice. Children go to school where all j the instruction is verbal. Here the children are trained for thrir j future family duties and arc steeped in the native religion. I Those tapped to become witch doctors get special instruction. Alexander Says "No" on Davis' Employment BY DAVID BAITY L. E. Davis, local car salesman, Was employed at toe July meeting of the city board of commission ers Thursday night to fill the po sition of assistant water filter plant operator, to be vacated by Ralph (Babe) Ware when he re joins the police department. The board's vote was not unan imous. A dissenting vote was cast toy Floss Alexander. Mr. Alexand er said he wishes to oast no re flection on Mr. Davis, ibut he did mot like to see “a man railroaded in.” Alexander stated he would like a chance to took into the several other applications presented the board first. M&yor Glee A. Bridges, in pre senting the applications for the job, suggested it might toe better to table the employment matter until later, tout R. Ooleman Stroupe insisted a man was need ed Immediately and it was 'his understanding the (board had a ■ greed at (the Hast meeting to set tle toe matter at the Thursday night session. Other applicants for the job wtere Ralph R. Wright, Dewitt (Patterson, GTady McCarter, Ooley Freeman, Harold Crawford, and J. K. Willis, Jr. Enos Freeman was also employ, ed toy the board to fill toe remain ing vacancy in toe police depart ment. In other action the hoard: 1) Voted to exempt Rochel Connor from privilege license regulations to operate a small store, if he as exempted by the county. 2) Instructed Mayor Bridges and Grady Yelton to investigate fire protection and sewer defici encies on Linwood Drive from Piedmont Avenue down. 3) Voted, providing Burlington Mills will agree, to swap a strip of property adjoining the Deal Street pool, deeded to the city by Burlington Mills for recre ational purposes to Carl Mayes in exchange for a right of way to widen Deal street. 4) Called for hearing on a re. quest for rezoning as neighbor hood trading area Mitchell street from Watterson street ito the Nt gro ball park. 5) Discussed employing a pri son crew furnished by the staite to do some ditching work. Since all details on the state plan were not completely understood, the board suggested Mayor Brid ges investigate further. 6) Instructed the Mayor .to in vestigate street light needs on second street, Margaret street, and Katherine street. Stamps Alley Suit Dismissed Civil suits against the City oi Kings Mounain, C. J. and Boyce H. Gault and R. Coleman Stroupe were non-suited in Cleveland Su perior Court Tuesday. Judge P. iC. FTonelberger hon ored motion of defense counsel, Davis & White o!f Kings Moun tain, that the suit he dismissed. Oairl iBailey Jones and his wife, Annie Ham Jones, had suted the defendants for $5,000 alleging en croachment on Stroupe Alley, which he defendants contended was dedicated permanently as an alley and a factor in purchase of their property.1 Testimony In the litigation be gan Tuesday morning as E. A. Hariill, attorney for plaintiffs, called B. A. Smith, H. M. Met calf, Marshal Yates and L. But ler Falls, a surveyor. Dtefense attorneys moved for dismissal without calling any witnesses.! ; PfMntnfifs were taxed with the costs. DuBose To Speak At Union Service Rev. M. D. DuBose, Jr., pastor Of Kings Mountain Baptist chur ch, will deliver the sermon at Sunday night’s community - wide union service. The service will be held at £ o’clock at iBoyce Memorial ARF church. Congregations from six church es in thle community are joining in the summer schedule of servi ces which will be continued throw ghout the summer, according to announcement by the Kings Mountain Ministerial Association, The participating ministers con duct the evening services from their own pulpits, a change from the schedule last summer when Visiting speakers filled the pul pits. The Ministers’ group has ex pressed itself as well pleased with the response to the summer series of ^ervictes. Juniors Eliminate Hickory, Advancing To Area IV Finals Jaynes Is Elected Central Principal Privilege License Purchases $3132 City privilege license purch ases totaled $3132 through Monday, well over half the $5500 the city estimates .it will receive from this revenue sour ce during ithe fiscal year. Oilty Clerk Joe McDaniel said he was please at the rate of purchase, adding that he hop ed all in-city businesses and out-ol'-tawn concerns doing business in Kings Mountain, would purchase privilege li censes prior to Augusit 1. Penalty of live percent per month accrues after July 31. Dilling Heating Posts Low Bid Dilling Heating Company, of King's Mountain was low bidder Tuesday on partial air-condition ing of City Hall. Mr. Dilling’s bid was $4089. Other bids were: Universal T-V and Appliance Company, Gas tonia, $4114.90, and Kings Moun tain Sheet Metal Works, $4650. The commission deferred ac tion on awarding the contract. In another action, the commis sion voted to use prison labor for clearing of drainage ditches and in-city creek banks and for clearing the banks of the York Road water supply lake. Under terms of the prison de partment proffer, a 12-man de tail of honor grade prisoners can be employed by the city at $5 per man per day, plus payment of transportation costs from the prison camp at ten cents per mile. The prison department fur nishes guards and the imen work under the direction of city em ployees. The detail can be ob tained for a day, a week, or a month, buit work must be sche duled in advance. A representa tive of the prison department told Mayor Glee A. Bridges re cently that the work detail is an effort to reward honor grade prisoners. Dog Quarantine Goes OH Monday It”ll be safe for the family pooch to take a stroll alone on Monday. The city board of commission ers, meeting in brief special ses sion Tuesday, formally declared an end ita the city’s 60-day dog quarantine on Monday, July 20. Dogs have been penned on penalty of becoming a target of a police revolver or shotgun. Swiss Lad, AFS Student, Relishes Upcoming Year In Kings Mountain BY ELIZABETH STEWART Pierre Dasen, 17-year-old Swiss youth writes he is looking for ward to a “happy and instruct ive year in Kings Mountain.’’ Kings Mountain’s second visi tor from abroad in the American Field Service International Scho larship Program, he has been completing final sehoolwork in Geneva, Switzerland before leav ing for America. He arrives here August 19, he has informed the Fred Plonk’s, his “adopted’’ par ents for his stay in this com. mundty. Graeme Reeves, the New Zea land youth who lived with Dr. and Mrs. P. G. Padgett here last year and graduated from Cen tral High, is to leave Honolulu by ship Sunday for home. He left by plane Saturday from Washington, D, C. for Honolulu. “I have some regrets to leave Geneva”, young Dasen said in a letter to Mrs. P. G. Padgett, chairman of the Home commit tee of the AFS in Kings Moun tain. "I’ll be a little stray be cause of bad English but I am sure I will be happy”, he added. The letter was filled with reports of school holiday activities in Geneva at the close of school, the promotion festival, and the Radio Suisse in Geneva where his farther 'is a radio operator. “Please transmit my best regards to the town and to my family there’’, he concluded. Young Dasen has written the Plonks inquiring about what ty pe clothes to bring and about the town in general. He sent a long a map he had traced of North Carolina and asked the Plonks to point out Rings Moun tain on the map and mail it back to him. They did. The Swiss you ith hadn’t been able to locate Kings Mountain on his map of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Dasen also wrote the AFS Committee thanking the group for its part in enabling their son to come to Kings Mountain. The committee has corresponded_ with the Da sens several times and other cit izens who may wish to welcome the boy to the town may write him at Chemin de Vincy 14, Gen eva, Switzerland. The Kings Mountain AFS com mittee, of which Mrs. Charles Alexander is chairman, includes representatives of virtually all clubs in the city. The exchange students come under communi ty-wide sponsorship. Monroe Principal Is Unanimously Elected To Post Harry Everett Jaynes was elec ted to the principalshlip of Cen tral School Wednesday afternoon at a called meeting of ithle Kings Mountain City School Board. Mr. Jaynes, age 32, comes from the princapal’is position at Walter Bickefit High School, Monroe. He succeeds E. Lawson Brown, who resigned the Central school principalship to accept the su perintendent’s position over Da vidson county schools. Jaynes, a native of Waynes viile, received Wis B. S. degree and his Master of Education de gree from Western Carolina Col lege. He taught at Waynesville High school in 1949 and then accepted a position in the Monroe city schools Where he eventually be came principal. Mr. Jaynes is married and the father of two Children. In other actions the 'board: 1) Elected Charles Agustus Helms of Cherryville to fill the driver’s education and world his tory teachfer vacancy in the high school. 2) Elected Miss Anne Cassity of Spruce Pine and Mrs. Elizabeth F. Griffith of Bessemer City to fill teacher vacancies in the ele mentary 'school system. Miss Cas sity is a recent graduate of Ap palachian State Teachers College, white Mrs. Griffith comes from Tryon School in Gaston County to the Rings Mountain system. Accident Fatal To Billy Hold Biilly Hard, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. William K. Hbrd, of Bridge port, Conn., was killed Monday morning about 6 o'clock in an au tomobile accident in Bridgeport. Funeral rites were conducted in Bridgeport Wednesday morning ait 8 o’clock. Details on the accident weren’t available here Wednesday. Surviving are his parents and a sister, Clara Ann Hord, 14. Mr. Hord is a Kings Mountain native who has lived in Bridge port for many years. Relatives attending the funer al from Kings Mountain were Mrs. Bun Goforth, Mrs. Prances Petty, HocnaCe Hord, Mrs. James E White and Eddie Goforth. JUNIOR STAR — Bobby Biddix played the giant's role Tuesday night, as the Kings Mountain Legion Juniors bopped Hickory, 10.5, to advance to the Area IV finals. Biddix relieved Jerry Wright in the eighth to tame the Hickory batters and was the hef ty stickman himself, as he smashed a bases-loaded triple in the eighth inning to assure the victory. He also contributed two singles to the Mountaineer attack. Hearing Today In McCleary Case William McCleary, Kings Mountain Negro, is being held in Cleveland County jail on charges of murder following the slaying of another Negro, Joe I Jamison, here Sunday, i Preliminary hearing has beer ! set for Thursday in Cleveland Recorder's Court. Sheriff’s Deputies George Allen and Paul Byers, who investigated along with Constable Charles Ford, said McCleary shot and killed Jamison following a brawl at 4:15 p. m. which allegedly oc curred over an argument about MeCleary’s wife. The bullet stru ck the victim’s chest near the heart and clipped an artery. Jamison died instantly. Officers said witnesses infer, red the (two Negroes had “spite out on each other” for sometime before the Sunday afternoon fra cas in the Galilee Section off York road. The fight started in the yard of Maggie Falls home on Route 1. The murder weapon, a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun, was fired by McCleary after Ja mison allegedly cursed him and hilt him with an axe handle. Wit nesses told officers that McClea ry had the gun and drew on Ja mison. Another Negress, Sally McKinney, also of route 1, re ported to officers that McCleary had carried a gun for Jamison for three weeks and had threat ened to kill him. In addition to (the Falls Ne gress, two cither witnesses, Paul Warren of route 1, and Eugene] Brown of 413 Ellis street, said they saw the two Negroes as they met. Jamison and McCleary were reportedly ordered by Mag. gie Falls "not to break out my Windows” and she told officers she heard the argument and en tered the house before the shoot ing occurred. The Falls woman returned to find Jamison on the ground with a pocket knife in his hand. The knife was found by officers at the scene. Witness es corroborated McCleary's state ment that Jamison hit him and the scuffle followed. Jamison, a World War 11 vet eran, was employed here by Neal’Hawkins Construct ion Com pany. He is survived by his mo ther, Mrs. Cora Jamison of Cliff-1 side; his estranged wife, Corene Jamison; four sons, one daugh ter, and five brothers, J. C. of Kings Mountain, William and Harry Jamison of Charlotte, Paul Jamison of Dayrtona Beach. Fla.,! and Herbert Jaimison of Cliffside.' Funeral rites were conducted Wednesday at 1 p. m. from Long Branch Baptist church, with in. termeht following in the church cemetery. Gill and Brown Fun eral Home had charge of ar rangements. SINGING The Ruby Quartet of Gaston ia will present a program of gosrpel singing at Penley’s Chapel Methodist church Sun day night at 7 o’clock. Rev. Leonard Huffstetler, pastor, has announced. ML Holly Team Oi Morganton Finals Opponent BY NEALE PATRICK Our amazing juniors are in the Area Four Finals. The Kings Mi. Legion kids gain ed the final round in the western area, defeating Hickory- for the second straight time, 105, here Tuesday night in a wild game marred by rain, rhubarbs and ball-hunting episodes. ; The victory sends Coach Fred Withers outfit into the the Area finals against the winner of the Mt. Holly-Morganton sbries which still was underway Wednesday night. Mt. Holly won the first game Of that set, 15-3, on Monday night. The teams were rained out at Morganton Tuesday and were dub to play at the same site Wed nesday. Commissioner Charlie Carpen ter has ruled that Mt. Holly and Morga n ton must play their foest of-three series, if at all possible. Thus, Kings Mountain must await the outoomb of that series to de termine its opponent for the Area Four championship. Carpenter said that if min continues to in terfere with the Mt. Holly-Mor ganton games, that hb will be forced to cut the finals series to a best-of-three set, instead of 'a best-of-five. The Area champion must bb named by next Wednes day, July 22. Kings Mt. took an early lead here Tuesday night, and had a 4-0 edge when min stopped the game for 15 minutes in, the top of the sixth inning. Aftbr action resum ed, Hickory closed the gap to one ! run with a late spurt against Jer | ry Wright. The Otis D. Green lads, then, i broke the game wide opbn with1 j five big insurance runs in the last of the eighth inning, with j Bobby Biddix coming on to hurl the final 'two innings and pre serve the victory for Wright. It was the second straight night that Kings Mt. went on a latoin-the (Cont’d on Page Two) Miles Mauney To Give Concert Miles Mauney, con dent pianist of New York and son of Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Mauney, Sr., of Kings Mountain, Will play a concert Sunday as a memorial to his twin toother, Ernest Mauney. Mr. Mauney will play with the Transylvania Orchestra at Bre vard Sunday afternoon at 4 o' clock. The Mauney numbers will in clude Mendelssohn Concerto No. 1 and Bach’s Concerto No. 5. The Mauney family and Mrs. Ernest Mauney and children are here from New York for a visit with, the W. IK. Mauneys. Kids Here Or Away, Thursday Or Later Kings Mountain's Legion Ju niors are awaiting thle outcome of the Mt, Hlol 1 y(M -organton se ries to determine their oppon ent in the Area Four champion ship playoffs. Mt. Holly won the opener,15-3, and thle clufbs were due to play the second contest of thle best of-three set Wednesday night at Morgan ton. Mt. Holly could have wrap ped up the finals herth with a win Wednesday night. In that event, the finals se ries will start at Mt. Holly on Thursday night. In any case, Mt. Holly will be the site of the first game of the finals, if that dub defeats Monganton. The series alternates home sites af ter the opener. Mt. Holly and Kings Moun tain tied for the top in thb south league of regular-season play and Mt. Holly wan the flip for the top position in playoff games. If Morganton should rally and Win the semi-finals set, the first games of thle finals with Kings Mountain will be played here — the night following the completion of the Mt. Holly MOrganton series. Kings Mountain lost both its regular season games to Mt. Holly, by a 6-3 scort? here In the year’s opener( and by 11-1 at Mt. Holly. Kings Mountain and Morganton have not met.