These are the stories that were hitting the headlines in the South Wales Guardian 50 years ago on April 1, 1965.

A Drefach factory worker claimed he would never trust the police again after accusing officers of lying under oath in a bid to see him convicted of a speeding offence.

“I have always trust the Carmarthenshire Constabulary but never again,” he told magistrates after being fined £2 for exceeding the limit by 6mph.

An ongoing sporting spat played out on the Guardian’s letters page concluded that rugby was a “far superior game to football” in the minds of all right-thinking people.

“All better educated people agree that rugby is by far the more proper game,” the latest correspondent to the debate declared.

Police had no option but to lock up a drunken 21-year-old Garnant man who challenged two officers to a fight with the words: “What you two need is a good pasting.”

The collier denied he had then adopted “a fighting stance” claiming instead that he had been shoved by a passer-by and was merely attempting to retain his balance.

There were tremors in the Ammanford political scene after one a well-known councillor resigned from his party after 12 years to join the Labour ranks.

“This is nothing to do with beliefs or integrity,” he told the Guardian, “I’ve moved because being in Plaid Cymru for all this time has got me nowhere.”

The bosses of the Ammanford footwear factory forced to lay-off 70 workers because of a slump in the men’s shoe trade blame the problem on a mild autumn.

“We are now looking forward to a nice long cold, wet winter,” the boss of John White Shoes said.