A Look Back

This 6-foot 100-pound alligator gar, taken by net Sunday morning in the Mississippi River. From the left, Arthur J. Burton, who caught the fish; Norman and Donnie Mae and Sam King. This huge fish can destroy a lot of other fish in a short while and Mississippi rivermen, warn, might even attack a child wading the stream's shallows. Published Monday, June 9, 1958. (Southeast Missourian Archive)...