These were the stories making the news in the South Wales Guardian 50 years ago on November 19, 1964.

A SLAUGHTERMAN employed at Brynaman abattoir was cleared of attempting to run over the company director during a row over a bucket of trimmings.

The wife of the company director denied attacking the worker man with a stick, but said: “I didn’t hit him, though if he touched my husband again I would have found something to hit him with.”

TWO Glanaman colliery men admitted assaulting a boss who left them £10 short in their pay packets.

The pair - who had given the boss a black eye - told police: “If we don’t get my money again he’ll get another one.”

A LLANDOVERY soldier charged with stealing a milk float was reprimanded by Ammanford Magistrates after his solicitor applied for a second adjournment.

Furious magistrates told the brief: “Who does he think he is? This is peace-time not war-time."

A GLANAMAN man told council rent collectors that his wife had kept him in the dark about their arrears.

“The wife must have been hiding this from him," said one knowledgeable committee member. "I’ve been told anything she can get on credit she will.”

A BRYNAMAN miner stole 40lb of coal and hid the loot in his tool sack.

The 41-year-old admitting the theft, telling Ammanford Magistrates: "Yes I stole it, I was cold and thought I'd put it on my fire.”