Ozona History

June 20, 1935
What might have ended tragically, resulted only in frightening several people Tuesday at noon when blasting of the slab in Johnson Draw was in progress. The Kyle family, residing about fifty yards from the scene of blasting, were seated at the table for the noon lunch when the series of dynamite blasts attracted their attention. 
Shortly after the family was attracted from the table by the blasting, a small piece of the dynamited slab smashed through a window of the house and caused the occupants to retreat to another room .Then a heavy piece of the flying debris came through the screen door and struck square in the middle of the table where the family had been eating a few minutes before. None of the family was injured by the flying parts of concrete which tore through the house. 
Dishes and food on the table when the missile landed were scrambled, glasses, plates and bowls being broken in the shake-up. Mrs. Kyle had been seated at the table with her back to the door, directly in the path of the hurtling stone, and would likely have been seriously injured had not she and her two sons, Walter and Arthur, decided to leave the table when the blasting started. Some of the blasted concrete flew through the air as far away as the Ozona Laundry building, a block away.

June 21, 1945
A word tour through a modern laundry and dry cleaning plant was enjoyed by members of Ozona Rotary Club at its Tuesday luncheon, with Ross Hufstedler, for 15 years an employee of the Ozona Laundry and Dry Cleaners, as conductor. Mr. Hufstedler described the various operations from receipt of a laundry or dry cleaning bundle to its final wrapping and delivery, detailing the sanitary method of washing, drying and ironing clothes and the various processes and chemicals used in the course of the day’s operations. Mr. Hufstedler has lived in Ozona 20 years, for the past 19 years of that time being employed in the various laundry and dry cleaning establishments here.

June 23, 1955
Colored cowboys from many parts of Texas wrestled with tough livestock to put on a fast and entertaining show for the paying customers as the seventh annual All-Colored Rodeo unreeled the weekend at the fair grounds arena here under auspices of the Ozona Roping Club. 
Most spectacular of the rodeo events, the bareback bronc riding and wild Brahma bull riding, to which the colored cowboys gave their all, captured the fancy of the crowds at the Saturday night and Sunday afternoon performances. The broncs, most of them fit running mates for famous Juneteenth, the black lighting who had reigned there years without being ridden only to fall by the difference of a heartbreak in time in the Saturday night show, were imported from New Mexico, as were the wild bulls. Douglas Smith of Ozona won the all-round cowboy award, a silver engraved belt buckle.

June 17, 1965
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June 19, 1975
OZONA YOUNGSTERS BEAT THE HEAT by taking advantage of the public pools. Both pools have been brimful of kids almost daily since opening the week after school closed. The pools open at 2 p.m. and close at 6 daily. Most youngsters spend the entire four hours swimming or sunbathing.