70 Years Ago: Wyo-Ben adds mill, boosts workforce

100 years ago

Sept. 7, 1924

E.R. Cheatham was knocked from his horse last Thursday evening while riding during  a thunderstorm on the Shell  road east of Greybull.  A stroke hit a telephone pole and the shock knocked him from his horse. He was stunned for only a few minutes and by the next day, all effects had passed.

90 years ago

Sept. 13, 1934

The Greybull Panthers will pry the lid off the football season Friday afternoon when they play a strong Ten Sleep team.  Coach J.C. Quigg is the line coach.

Miss Martha Dillon became the bride of Morris Avery in a ceremony in Billings last week. The popular couple will make their home in Greybull.

80 Years Ago

Sept. 14, 1944

Second Lieutenant James F. Allen, U.S.M.C.R., is home on a furlough, having completed his operational training in Jacksonville Fla., where he was flying in a squadron of Corsairs.  He has been permanently assigned to this plane.  Lt. Allen is a graduate of Greybull High School, where he played both football and basketball

Harry (Smokey) Grabbert, well-known Emblem rancher associated with his brother Fred, in the Grabbert Brothers’ extensive ranching activities, suffered a severe heart attack Thursday while working at their sheep camp near Meeteetse. It is believed the exertion in the high altitude attributed to the attack.

70 Years Ago

Sept. 17, 1954

Wyo-Ben Products is adding another complete bentonite processing mill at its plant seven miles north of Greybull. It now employs 10 men at the mill, and the addition will add about five more to the payroll.

Starting for the Buffs against Red Lodge Friday will be Jerry Williams, Anthony Walton, Merrill Sanders, Lohrenz Williams, Jerry Bullinger, Gerald Wegner, Kenny Severance, Bob Fletcher, Darwin Yates, Jerry Crawford and Mitchell Copp.

60 Years Ago

Sept. 17, 1964

About $90 in cash — most of it in small change - was taken from the Big Horn Bakery in Basin sometime Sunday night or early Monday morning, policeman Don Porter reports.

The boats that old Doc Berry used to run up the Big Horn Canyon made many trips upstream back 40 or 50 years ago.  But none like a trip one of the old boats made this week when a group of Greybullites winched it out of the Big Horn Canyon, put it on a Jeep trailer and towed it home to Greybull and safekeeping. The Ray Cheathams, the Russell Bonds and Bill Greene had hoped to do the job in one day’s time, but it wound up taking three.

50 Years Ago

Sept. 12, 1974

Lee R. Kunkle, a truck driver for Wyo-Ben of Greybull, narrowly escaped serious injury when air brakes on the truck he was driving failed on a hill five miles east of Greybull and the vehicle overturned.  When the truck turned over, the bentonite spilled out, completely covering Kunkle.  Kunkle suffered severe bruises and several broken ribs.

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