Ozona History

July 25, 1935
Jack Lamb, world's champion bass fisherman, who gave a practical demonstration on how to reel in the game fish here Saturday, for the benefit of local fishing enthusiasts. Lamb has caught more black bass than any other man in the world. He fishes for the pure love of the sport and not for the game, throwing most of the fish he catches back into the water.

July 26, 1945
An architect's drawing of the exterior design of the new church building they hope to erect when labor and materials are again available, is being studied by the membership of the Ozona Methodist Church, Rev A. A. Carter, pastor announced this week. The drawing, a watercolor sketch, is on display at the Methodist Center and members of the church are being asked to visit the center and study the plan. 
W.T. Strange of Lubbock, architect, employed by the church, is scheduled to be in Ozona soon, Rev. Carter said, and a conference of the church membership is planned on the occasion of his visit. Details of the building will be discussed at the conference and full information on progress of such plans will he revealed to the membership, the pastor said. The proposed new building is to be erected on the lot in the south part of the city, two blocks from the highway intersection, which the church purchased after fire destroyed the church building on the southeast corner of the business square in 1942.

July 21, 1955
Contracts are scheduled to be awarded by next fall for the construction of a United States Air Force, Air Defense Command, installation four miles east of Ozona, estimated to cost in the neighborhood of one million dollars. Definite assurance that the Air Force installation would be located near Ozona, rumored here for the past year, was given this week when J. W. Bleeker, from the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District office, completed arrangements for the purchase by the government of a site on the Davison ranch four miles east of Ozona just north of Highway 290.

July 22, 1965
Soon a campaign will be launched in Ozona to form a “Walking Blood Bank,” a file of persons, with information to blood type, etc., who will agree to donate blood for transfusions in case of emergencies. The campaign is to be handled by the Crockett County Hospital where blood typing is to be done free of charge to the prospective donor and a type card issued to each person whose blood is typed. 
Bailey Post, administrator, and Norman Olson, hospital anesthetist, this week announced plans for the Walking Blood Bank, Mr. Olson explaining the plan in a talk to the Ozona Rotary Club Tuesday noon. Cards are being printed with various blood types noted and such a card will be filled in for each person who volunteers to have his blood typed at the hospital. A file of such persons will be kept at the hospital and in the event of an emergency, a donor will be summoned to give blood. 
“Fresh whole blood is much more beneficial to the patient most times than blood bank blood,” Mr. Olson explained. “This fact, coupled with the time factor, might sometime be vital, the difference between life and death for a patient having blood available immediately rather than having to wait until it could be transported from San Angelo. For this reason, we are anxious to build up a file of persons, with blood type information, to meet any emergency which might arise at the hospital.” 
Persons from age 18 through 50 will be suitable as blood donors and men are preferred as prospective donors over women because they are usually more able to give blood than women, Mr. Olsen said.

July 24, 1975
HOW ABOUT A LITTLE KISS? asks Pissel, famous talking parakeet, of his owner, Mrs. Tom Dunigan. Pissel has appeared on television many times and has also made numerous personal appearances at children’s hospitals all over the United States. The amazing little bird is scheduled for a movie and a CBS special in the near future.