From our files: Wacker named G-P plant manager in 1999

100 years ago, Sept. 26, 1924

The Cowley Progress

Mrs. Sam Egbert is visiting her parents and friends this week at her former home down at the ML Ranch across the Big Horn River.

“Curley” Vaterlaus came home Monday from Yellowstone Park, where he has been working on the line crew of the Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co. for the past three months. Leland Safford, who was with him, has another month’s work on building additions to Old Faithful Inn.

75 years ago, Sept. 29, 1949

The Lovell Chronicle

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown, Mr. and Mrs. M.A. Jolley and Mr. and Mrs. Grant Taggart left yesterday on a motor trip through Montana, Idaho and Utah to inspect LDS church buildings to aid them in deciding on the style and size of the new stake house, which will be built in Lovell next year.

50 years ago, Sept. 26, 1974

The Lovell Chronicle

Fire completely gutted a Lovell Clay Products warehouse Thursday in Lovell, doing an estimated $100,000 worth of damage and knocking the company out of business for at least the next two months. Lovell volunteer firemen responded to the alarm at 6:06 p.m. September 19 and battled the raging fire for an hour and a half before bringing it under control.

Destroyed was the machinery for placing the polyurethane slip couplings on the clay pipe manufactured at Lovell Clay. Also damaged, but hopefully repairable, were three forklifts used to move the pipe, valued at $25,000.

25 years ago, Sept. 23, 1999

The Lovell Chronicle

Georgia-Pacific has announced the promotion of Bruce Wacker of Lovell to the position of plant manager at the Lovell plant. Wacker has been with G-P for 27 years. He began his career with G-P at the company’s Blue Rapids, Kansas, plant in 1972, working in engineering and mine supervision. He then transferred to the Lovell plant in 1976 as the maintenance superintendent. In 1986, Wacker was promoted to senior plant engineer at Lovell. Since June of this year, he has been wearing two hats, serving as acting plant manager in addition to his engineering duties.

10 years ago, Sept. 25, 2014

The Lovell Chronicle

A ruling Tuesday by a federal district court judge in Washington, D.C., places gray wolves in Wyoming under federal protection. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is notifying residents and hunters that this suspends the taking of gray wolves in Wyoming. Wyoming expects to seek a stay of the decision in conjunction with the creation of an emergency rule, which confirms its existing management protocol.