Premium ContentMouse over Home then click on Premium Content for information.What happened in the Midlands on this day? Here's a sampling from the World-Herald archives.
STRIKE PINNED BY COURT
Jan. 27, 1975: Union officials ordered an end to a brief strike by railway workers after the railroads invoked mediation through the courts. Earlier, pickets in Omaha and Lincoln paraded around Burlington Northern property in what some wire services called a wildcat strike. The walkout apparently stemmed from national negotiations over wage increases.
1936: Chief Justice Charles A. Goss of the Nebraska Supreme Court told the Lancaster County Bar Association lawyers they can make a favorable impression on the justices by couching their appeals in conversational tones. "Unless the attorney does it for the benefit of the psychological effect on himself there is no reason for yelling in court," Goss said. "But if any lawyer wants to do it, it's OK with me."
1953: The city received the revised plans for the proposed Center Street route for the Southwest Radial Highway. Harland Bartholomew and Associates, St. Louis, Mo., engineers, did the revising. In an earlier report for the Omaha Improvement Commission the firm outlined three possible routes, recommending the Center Street location as the best. However, the City Legal Department said a proposal in the Center Street plans to cut across Hanscom Park could not be done without violating the park deed and perhaps losing the land.
2007: The Omaha Police Department reached more than 2,000 students, parents and school officials last year through a program that focuses on the reduction of crashes and fatalities involving drivers ages 16 to 19. Project Night Life is funded by a federal grant through the Nebraska Office of Highway Safety. The police department also conducted 40 enforcement operations during the year, focusing on locations with high crash rates and locations that are frequented by teen drivers. Among the tickets issued: 1,460 citations for speeding, 140 of which were issued to drivers ages 16 and 17; seven arrests for drag racing; 93 arrests for minor in possession of alcohol; and 89 arrests for driving under the influence, three of which were issued to 16- and 17-year-olds.
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