
DATE: Monday, November 3, 1997              TAG: 9711030049

SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B2   EDITION: FINAL 
SOURCE: - The Associated Press

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VIRGINIA

HURT

Voters will decide

if beer, wine may

be sold on Sundays

Voters in this small town will decide Tuesday whether to allow beer and wine sales on Sundays.

Town Council members could have passed the measure without the referendum, but attorney John Eller said the council decided to let voters decide.

A similar measure was rejected by Hurt residents 179-118 in 1984.

Convenience store owners said not allowing beer and wine sales on Sunday costs them business and the town tax revenue.

But the Rev. Dr. Dillard Lykins, pastor of First Southern Baptist, said he will tell his parishioners to vote no on the referendum.

``Being a Baptist and a Christian, I would be against it not just on Sundays, but the rest of the week,'' he said. DANVILLE

Police seek two men seen with stabbing victim

Police are looking for two men seen with a 39-year-old Danville man who was later found stabbed to death.

Capt. T.A. Brown said police arrived at a residence about 2:30 a.m. Saturday to find Dale Gwynn Williamson with a wound in his upper chest. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Williamson's body has been sent to Roanoke for an autopsy.

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