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Show Records Show Fish Rain Down From Sky at Times WASHINGTON. Fish do, 1 0 o, rain down from the sky now and then. Moreover, an article in the magazine maga-zine Science said, they have been known to rain in frying size at breakfast time. A. D. Bajkov of the Oyster laboratory lab-oratory at Biloxi, Miss., reported that he personally witnessed a rain of fish at Marksville, La., October 23, 1947. He and his wife were in a restaurant restau-rant eating breakfast, Bajkov said, when fish from two to nine inches long began dropping by the hundreds hun-dreds on streets, sidewalks and lawns, "mystifying the citizens." Several persons, including a banker and two storekeepers, were pelted by fish "absolutely fresh and fit for human consumption. Bajkov picked up a big jar of large-mouth bass, goggle-eye, two kinds of sunfish, several species of minnow and hickory shad. The largest fish in his collection was a bass 9 14 inches long,, he said. A Citizen struck by the fish reported re-ported they were frozen. Those picked up by Bajkov were merely cold. But it is a matter of record, he said, that frozen fish fell on Essen, Gel many, in 1890. "The largest falling fish on record," rec-ord," Bajkov said, "was reported from India and weighed over six pounds." |