
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, May 22, 1990                   TAG: 9005220336
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: WYTHEVILLE                                LENGTH: Short

WYTHEVILLE COLLEGE SHOWS 60-POUND CARP

The second-largest carp ever caught is on display at Wytheville Community College not far from where it was landed with a bow and arrow almost 20 years ago.

The 60-pound fish came from a private pond, known as "Sink Mill Pond," now part of the college campus. It was shot by the late Ben A. Topham of Wytheville July 5, 1970, and his widow, Shirley Topham, has provided the fish to the college for exhibition.

The Guiness Book of World Records lists the fish as second in size only to a carp taken near Pretoria, South Africa. - Southwest bureau

by CNB