Ozona History

Aug. 29, 1935
Convocational exercises next Monday morning at 8:30 in the Ozona High School auditorium will open the 1935-’36 school session in Crockett County and over seven hundred students will be called from vacation enjoyments to classroom studies. Teachers and students have been returning during the past few days and those remaining late at summer occupations and pastimes elsewhere are expected to return tomorrow or the next day.

Aug. 30, 1945
Crockett county voters all but overlooked entirely the special election held last Saturday to decide on four proposed amendments to the Texas constitution. Only 17 eligible voters in Crockett County, one of the smallest responses ever recorded in a state election, expressed an opinion on the issues involved. Voting was held only in the Ozona box, outlying precincts failing to hold the elections. The seventeen voters who did take the trouble to go to the polls were divided in their opinions of the proposed constitutional changes in about the same proportions of the total vote on the issues throughout the state.

Aug. 25, 1955
Several phases of metal work are to be offered for the first time this year in the industrial art program of the Ozona High School, R. K. Wimberley, head of the department has announced. Included in the courses to be offered, Mr. Wimberley said, will be both gas and electric welding: some phases of sheet metal work wrought iron and art metal. Art metal is a unit dealing with copper, brass-and aluminum, Mr. Wimberley explained.

Aug. 26, 1965
Patience and perseverance finally paid off Tuesday afternoon when the sheriff’s department broke Ozona’s purse-snatching ring, in operation here since January. The leader of the gang was taken into custody only 45 minutes after he pulled his last job. After a report from a high school student that her purse was missing from her car when she returned after registering, and a tip from an alert citizen, a 12-year-old Latin-American boy was taken into custody. He confessed to a purse stealing binge that dated back to January and implicated two other youths. The other two boys were taken into custody and over half the missing purses were recovered from hiding places all over town. Ranging in age from 12 to 16, the boys will be placed in the custody of their parents until juvenile court convenes at a later date. 

Aug. 28, 1975
DEADLINE FOR HISTORY STORIES COMING UP — September 1 is the deadline for family histories to be turned in for the Crockett County History Book, and the museum has been a busy place this week. Everybody waited till the last minute, but stories came in at a fast and furious pace. Here Mrs. Ira Carson looks over a picture of early day settlers while Mrs. Roy Henderson delivers her family history. Mrs. Joe Bean looks on. The framed print in the background is the official Crockett County Bicentennial logo, created by Mrs. Jackie Womack.