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100 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1917

PINE BLUFF— Dr. L.E. Campbell, veterinary surgeon of this city, is preparing to put a wooden leg on a three-year-old Jersey cow, owned by M. Edwin Bryan of this city. The cow was struck by an automobile on the Dollarway and her left hind leg was crushed. The owner prized the cow so highly that he has arranged for amputation of the injured leg, a willow “peg” will replace it.

50 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1967

Under the new automobile license plate numbering system, several persons have ordered the number 1, in combination with letters, for 1968. The governor still will have the only tag bearing the number 1 alone, as tradition dictates, the state Revenue Department said. Under the new system, anyone can order personalized license places for $10 a year extra.

25 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1992

Little Rock’s population of “incorrigible” juvenile offenders is nearly three times the national average, 6th Judicial District Prosecuting Attorney Mark Stodola said. That was just one of the sobering statistics Stodola reeled off during a talk to teachers attending a conference on law-related education in Little Rock. He called on them to help rally support for meaningful change in the state’s juvenile justice system when legislators meet in January 1993. “Our legislators nowhere near understand the importance of our juvenile justice system,” Stodola said.

10 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 2007

Arkansas could do better at child-support enforcement if the Legislature passed a law requiring the state’s enforcement office to monitor early compliance with all new child-support court orders, the office’s administrator told lawmakers. The Office of Child Support Enforcement ranked among the top three in a 10-state region and either exceeded or equaled the national average on five performance measures used by the federal government, said administrator Dan McDonald. But he told the Legislature’s Joint Performance Review Committee, “We can be more efficient, and we can be more effective.” He said the office handles child-support cases at the request of a custodial parent and at the request of the state as a result of a request for public assistance. It also handles cases in which employers withhold child-support payments from their employees’ wages, he said. The office’s collections last fiscal year totaled $245 million.