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America s Farthest Ah15* Per CopyFAIRBANHigh Wafer)S Threafeningln AlNenanaoon to-1riover! River Higheranizing1 Than Community tSlini But Dike Holding%■ SONlunteer ‘s tanksceneSee Pictures On Page Ninegauge now stands at better build-,1 than 12 feet.oke so Tn all former vears the streetso evenhtinsy. theof ivenana would be under water now. according to Virgii Patter-of the ^son of ^enana' amine i RePorts from Nenana indi-uth of' catGd water was beginning to tnirV^i seeP uncier railroad tracksat the lower end of the vommu-fem'.1?|nity this morning.’11, The villages of Lower Kals-maing; j.ag ancj Crooked Creek, above aennSj Bethel, were evacuated by irne' 1 military helicopter. Wednesday irotec-!as new jams formed along the : pro-.lower river.sisted. f Rising waters were beginning nasksito enter the low-lying areas of rot.ee-j Bethel Wednesday night Roads build-j surrounding the city are inunareas i dated.A new jam lias formed below Lower Kaiskag. it is being bombed by Navy planes out of Kodiak, according to Bethel re*: ports. The bombing is being artpH coordinated through Jim Mes-; , ‘sick. Anchorage Civil Defense.A second jam is at Akiak, $- just above Bethel, and several I smaller jams were reported ! forming between the larger , Akiak jam and Bethel,i The river at Bethe! was re-ported open this morning for jsix miles below that town, ac-; cording to Pat Wolfe, ij.o.! Corps of Engineers,Wolfe said the water at Lower Kaiskag was- reported to have fallen a foot during the night. The crest of flood wafers iioldlhas not yet reached Bethel, their village between McGrathte of i Kaiskag on the rampag-thej'ng Kuskokwim River escaped mb!y I serious damage from the flood.' 1 The most extensive damage trac-:was caused by ice moving uiio cent|the Wlages-anx-i The Yukon River was report-nbiyiod to be open and flowing; Flood waters on the upper ! Kuskokwim River were „/I ported receding today but 'ice jams and flooding eon-■ditions now threaten the ? City of Bethel and villages along the lower Kuskokwim.At Nenana on the Tanana \ River the only thing keepinging fire Ith6 river s surg‘ng waters outi Ahfjni: of (he community is a new dike .'erected behind the town by the I Corps of Engineers last sum-; ? jmer.;$ trom| pjie ^ js reporfed holding utfercu; out the crest of the river is e- 'currently running above the i abouti level of the town. The river ey andf UowingKUSKOKlschool at ed by wa Dogs stan were put water wasnca-!(Continued on Page A Cof. 7J:ahviR.'ti: nnt of JuneauTf W -' •¥L^W^-
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Fairbanks Daily News Miner
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Thu, Jun 04, 1964
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