What happened in the Midlands on this day? Here's a sampling from the World-Herald archives.
SCHOOL ASKED FOR CONVICTS
Jan. 20, 1936: Governor R. L. Cochran disclosed a movement was under way to extend the facilities of the University of Nebraska extension division to inmates of the state's penal institutions. "While the average citizen usually considers this as being a place of punishment," the governor said, "I think we should keep in mind also that it should be a place of reform and education to the end that the inmates of our penal institutions may return to society as more useful citizens."
1977: The University of Nebraska College of Medicine would switch its basic curriculum from three years back to four to attempt to improve the quality of medical education. Dean Perry Rigby made the announcement after the change was approved at a meeting of the college's general faculty. A report on the program went to the NU Board of Regents.
1991: A pipeline company began looking into groundwater contamination it might have caused at a farm well north of Norfolk, Neb. On Jan. 7, the Nebraska Department of Environmental Control sent Kaneb Pipe Line a letter that asked the company to undertake a site assessment, which would provide a detailed look at the extent of groundwater contamination. Brian McManus, a DEC spokesman, said groundwater experts with the state believed that the well contamination was a delayed result of a 1987 unleaded fuel spill at a nearby Kaneb terminal.
2005: The Catholic Archdiocese of Omaha purchased land in northwest Sarpy County and was considering the site for its next parish and school. The 20-acre site was in a rapidly growing part of the metro area, at 192nd and Chandler Streets, one-half mile south of Harrison Street. The archdiocese holds a number of properties in anticipation of growth: in Papillion near 90th Street and Highway 370 and in Omaha near 162nd and Ida Streets and near 186th and Pacific Streets. The archdiocese said each of the sites was under consideration as a possibility for the new parish.
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