The Parsons Sun from Parsons, Kansas • 12

PAGI IS mi PARSONS, KANSAS, SUN, KUAY, SWIMUR 2, lMf. and Karen went today to attend to business matters at Poplar Bluff, Mo. They will meet there Mrs. Dobson's son Truan, Mrs. Truan Dobson and daughta who enroute to their home in south Texas from Wisconsin, where they have visited ing a parachute with "John Dargi stamped on it was killed in a plane crash.

The Royal air fane withdrew its death notice when Dargi proved he had lent the chute to a fallow navigator at a flying school Say Cancer-Stricken Farmer a Suicide Wichita MV-Deputy County Coroner Dale rairleigh said yes-today that Joseph A. Wear, 71, whose body was found in his bck yard, took his own life with a shotgun. Wear, widely known Harvey and Sumner county wheat farm-e- and auctioneer, was incurably ill of cancer, the deputy coroner said. Third 'Death' But Still Alive Ramsgate. Eng, (AJ John Dargie learned today that he died on Aug.

SI. He Juat laughed. That makea three time and hea only 50l The lateat death notice took the farm of a widow's pension check far lbs. Dugi. It came from the hhm1 insurance ministry.

Records there showed Dargi passed away 13 days ago. Clerical error. they decided. Dargi also was officially dead In each of the two world wars. In World War I the navy passed the sad news to his relatives after a raid mi the Belgian harbor Zeebrugge.

They reported Dargi went down aboard one of the escort vessels. It turned out he had been transferred to another boat at the last minute. In World War II a man wear presidential elec-nber of of eligible In the last tions. the number women voters exceeded the number of men voters by 1.500.000. bow-wave like a ship The water came from a torrential downpour of cloudburst proportions which struck the greater Boston area.

HEAVY RAINS HIT MEW ENGLAND This passenger train learned some amphibious tricks as it plowed through deep water in a railroad cut near Brookline, pushing a Record on Gas Tax Revenue Topeka (A1) Kansas gasoline tax revenue soared to a new high in the fiscal year ended June SO, the state motor fuel tax division reports. Collections totaled more than a million dollars above the record fa the previous fiscal year. The one-cent levy on ail motor fuel raised $8,781,244.75 while the three-cent tax, exempted on gasoline used fa non-highway pur-ioscs, accounted for $13,708 80.59. Meanwhile a four-yea precedent was broken when August collections of the state commission of revenue and taxation fail' ed to equal those of the same month a year ago. Commission Chairman Fred Horn reported total collections fa August were $5,985,01750, down $31554.34 a 53 of one percent It was the first time since June 1945 a month's collections had failed to surpass those of the corresponding month a year ear-lier.

Sales tax collections In August totaled $2.813.10154, down 4.67 percent from the same month in 1948. Included in the August collections were initial returns from the states new 5 -cent gasoline tax. It (nought in $1,985,688.27. The ntw gasoline tax will be exempted from all non-highway fuel until a refund system becomes effective Jan. 1, 1950.

Oswego COUNTY SEAT NEWS Hie. JL Draper. fatophoM HI RESCUED FROM PIPE A 350-pound sow snoozes In the water in a 24-inch drain tile (top) on a farm near Mason City, unconscious of the furor she caused by enteding the 700-foot pipe and disappearing after giving birth to 11 pigs. Ha owner, Clem Hebei dug five holes seven feet dap along the tile before she was located. George Mikkelsen (left) and Orville Peters (in bottom photo) put their shoulders behind the sow as she is removed from her prison.

Olathe went to Chicago. McCullough is a student in pharmacy at the University of Kansas. He is a graduate of Oswego highschool. Mr. snd Mrs.

Lee Elsworth and Gertrude moved yesterday into the house on North Wisconsin vacated Wednesday by Mr. and Mrs. Astor Greenzweig. Mrs. tilie McReynolasand Mrs.

ae Gunter left today to vii the formers daughter, Mrs. Clare Gregg, whose home is nea Indianapolis. Mrs. Gregg is the former Pauline Cook. A guest of Terry Moore and his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. A. V. Moore, is his cousin, Helen Burton of Tulsa. Guests of Mr.

and Mrs. Milt (look have been ha sister, Mrs. Jessie Becket, Mrs. Becket's daughter, Mrs. Lyle Bingham, Mr.

Bineham and son, Merriam. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ball, are taking a vacation. They spent a week in the Ozarks and are now visiting their son William, Mrs.

William Ball and children at their home in Oklahoma City. Their son Charles, Jr is attending to the operation of the Corner Newstand. Charles, arrived ten days ago from Farragut, where he attended school. Mrs. F.

F. Dobson, ha daughter, Mrs. Elton Kams, Mr. Kama ercises will be held here today for the largest class to be graduated from the offica candidate school since its establishment. Second lieutenants bars will be received by 150 men.

yesterday for their license. They will be married Saturday night in Corpus Christ! Catholic church here. Friends said the church would recognize the marriage because: Vallee's first marriage to Leonia Gauchers was annulled. His second wife. Fay Webb, died after their divorce.

His marriage to actress Jane Greer they were divorced in 1944 was outside Catholic church. The Rev. A. O. MitchaL tor of the Mason Chapel Metho dist church, has announced that the Rev.

A. L. Reynolds, jr evan-elist of the central-west conference, will hold a series of meetings at the chapel beginning Monday night Albert Hoheiael has accepted employment at Guys Food store. He will attend to merchandise stored in the warehouse. A wadding shower for Mr.

and Mrs. Ralph Slice, Jr was given Wednesday night at the community hall by members of the class of 1949 of Oswego high-school and other friends of the couple. Hostesses were Augusta Domeny, Naomi Harris, Ruth Sprecher and Nits Walker. Gifts were arranged on a table beneath a lamp from which pink snd white streamers descended. A pillow of green organdie fashioned by Augusta Domenv was used to preserve the ribbons which had tied the gift wrappings.

Refreshments of icecream and frosted cup cakes Inscribed with the maiden name of the bride, Mildred Allison, were served. County Commissioners James county Vallee Will Wed No. 4 Oakland, Cal. OP) Rudy Vallee has the preliminaries out of the way for his fourth marriage this time to a 21 -year-old University of California psychology graduate. The 48-year-old orchestra leader and Eleanor Kathleen Norris daughter and her son, Ponca City, are visiting this week her parents, the Rev.

and Mrs. C. F. Hayes. William Jones, Tacoma, is visiting his brother Francis M.

Jones, hL son Wayne Jones, Mrs. Wayne Jones and children. William Jones has not visited Oswego since he left 29 years Clare and Jesse Brown, whose parents are Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Ephinger of Kansas City, are visiting their grandmother, Mrs.

Carrie Johnson. Mrs. Ephinger before ha marriage was Betty Johnson. Miss JoAnn Baker, daughta of Mr. and Mrs.

Harold Baker and a graduate this yea of the teachers college at Pittsburg, will leave today tor Baxter Springs where she will teach English and biology in the highschool. Guests Wednesday of Mr. and Mrs. Sandford Back and daughta Sandra were Mrs. Back's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Stanley Big-ham of Coffeyville, and her brother Clarence and Mrs. Clarence Bigham, Lyons. The group enjoyed the fair and the fireworks Wednesday night Mrs. 1L E.

Steward is again at her home on West Sixth. She returned Sunday from a vacation trip on which she accompanied ha daughta, Mrs. Fred Eicnhorn, Mr. Eichhoin, their daughta Kathleen and their son The group visited in Ft Worth.1 went to the Carlsbad Caverns up to Nevada, across to San Francisco, then to Los Angeles. They visited in South Gate, Cat, Mrs.

Morris' sister, Mrs. Clare Sand-ford, the forma Grace Morris, also her brother Arthur Morris and Mrs. Morris at Sacramento. On their way home the group visited Salt Lake City and Colorado Springs. Billy McCullough, son of Mr.

and Mrs. E. W. McCullough, permanent active navy reservist with the rating of lieutenant, junior grade, has joined his unit tor a carrier flight He reported at Olathe the first of the week, from JOURNOrS GARAGE 2918 Frisco General Repair WELDING TUNE-UP Phone 593 Record OCS Class Fort Riley OP) Graduation ex- of Bakeley, slipped quietly; into the marriage bureau here! Get Set for Your Holiday Weekend! i. Reed, picks pockets Haw'l a wdufey lopp holy different, luttoni ra worn en the mammoth double pockeii; the neeh button Mncealed under the perky collar.

Designed by I. A. Wallace In sulphur, rut, grey, navy, ton, kelly, hemlock, sites 10 to II. Fred Crispell and A. 1 Harrison, County Attorney Jack Shuss, his assistant, John Amos, and heads of departments attended yesterday to the details of the county payday.

Lonnie Pearce. Route I. Oswego, brought two coyotes to the office of the county clerk Wednesday and received his boun-r of $2. Alice Schmitz, Route 4, 'arsons, brought Tuesday to the county clerk's office the scalp of a coyote run over by her father's automobile. Alice was en-route to the 4-H club program Tuesday at tha county fair.

$149! FOR SEAT COVERS AD Malta and Medela G-H Motors Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Patterson are moving today into the house at the eorna of Sixth end Wisconsin they purchased this week from Mr.

and Mrs. H. E. Evana, a. Mr.

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