SNAKE RIVER DREDGING
TO START TOMORROW
The U. S. Engineers have their
equipment afloat and have made
several trial runs, according to
Bill Brown, Engineer in Charge,
and should get started on main
tenance dredging of Snake River
tomorrow. Pete Brandt will be
skipper on the tug “Carpenter”.
In addition to the dredging, the
department will continue driving
steel pile on the south revetment.
Mr. Brown stated that thispart of
PEGGY'S CAFE NOW OPEN
Peggy’s Cafe, owned and oper
ated by Peggy Whitmore, closed
down this week for alterations
and enlargement due to the vol
ume of business but is re-opening
this evening with the serving of
dinner.
Peggy states that a full sched
ule of meals will be served from
breakfast through dinner.
the work would be delayed until
the piling arrives for the project.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Pi—An j
Anchorage population of ll,0(i0 '
within the ei tylimits was repor- '
ted Saturday by James 1). Brown,
Third Division census supervisor.
Areas which have mushroomed
outside the city limits are expec
ted to have a population of 16,000
tc* 18,000. They include Eastches
ter, Spenard, Mountain View,
Merrill Field Forf Richardson.
The preliminarv count of 11,060 I
for the city is more than three .
times the 1940 census count of
3,495.
Brown estimated the final Al-,
aska figures will show 47 or 43 ;
per cent of the total will be in the '
Third Division.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, CP)— A
preliminary incomplete count,
shows the population of Fair
banks at 5,065, the census bureau
announced Friday.
This brings the district total to
9,557, or a 98 per cent increase
over the total of 10 years ago.
Completed figures from some t
districts in the Fourth Division
are. Koyokuk, 208; Otter, 288;
Fort Gibbon, 362; Koyuk, 157;
Fairhaven, 375; Noatak-Kobuk, j
3,940; Mt. McKinley Park, 341.
Innoco, 80. 1
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