Omaha Time Capsule: Work delay angers

What happened in the Midlands on this day? Here's a sampling from the World-Herald archives.

WORK DELAY ON RADIAL JOB ANGERS OIC

Feb. 9, 1954: Omaha Improvement Commission members were sore about the stalled construction program for the east section of the Northwest Radial Highway. A week prior District Judge Jackson B. Chase stopped construction of an underpass at 33rd and Cuming Streets. Property owners on 33rd had filed suit.

1939: The city of Omaha challenged street car company operating methods on six grounds in a formal application for a fare reduction forwarded by City Attorney Seymour Smith to the state railway commission. Present fares, the petition asserted, "are out of all proportion to a fair and reasonable return on the actual value of property used and useful."

1987: A group of Nebraskans wanted a national demonstration project built at one of Nebraska's two nuclear power plant sites to show how low-level radioactive wastes could be stored permanently above ground. Wastes generated at power plants and other facilities would be stored in containers inside concrete vaults, as they are at nuclear plants in Canada, France and elsewhere, group members said. Above-ground storage at either the Fort Calhoun plant near Blair or the Cooper plant near Brownville would eliminate the need to build a low-level radioactive waste disposal facility in a sparsely populated area, group members said.

1998: The Omaha Children's Museum Rainbow Connectors Guild sent an early Valentine to those attending its Valentine Family Affair at the museum. According to Deanna Foley, event chairwoman, 284 people attended and raised $3,000. The brunch featured pancakes created by John Kuper, son of the Pancake Man. The younger set could decorate Valentine cookies, create Valentine sacks and have their faces painted. Daffy the clown bestowed kiss stickers to the children.

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