In the news on this date: March 23

50 years ago: March 23, 1972

W. Carl Jackson, Pennsylvania State University Library director, who recently toured four "Iron Curtain" countries, toured the Robert E. Eiche Penn State Altoona library along with the Friends of the Altoona Area Public Library group.

25 years ago: March 23, 1997

Former Altoona Mayor William C. Stouffer, who had a chaplain's office in the Blair County Prison, told the prison board more room was needed for inmates to meet with their lawyers and parole officers.

10 years ago: March 23, 2012

An underground cavern at First Avenue and 14th Street caused a water main break. A 1966 geological survey found two half-mile long fractures in the limestone and shale underground.