Ozona History

January 31, 1935
Just how severe the drouth is up in Regan County was revealed last Sunday when Wren Jackson, brother-in-law of A.W. Jones of Ozona, performed a postmortem on a milk cow that died on his place near Best and found among other things in the cow’s stomach three large common nails and a length of bailing wire. That was in one stomach—Mr. Jackson didn’t explore the other. If the drouth continues much longer, it may be necessary to call on the state highway department for loan of the state’s big magnetic nail picker to prevent wholesale losses among his cows, Mr. Jackson declares. Whether or not the cow was a victim of her unusual diet was not fully determined, but it was believed the concentrated iron rations were at least a contributory cause of death.

February 1, 1945
Mrs. Scott Peters, Crockett County chairman of Highway Beautification, this week announced plans for a tree planting campaign along the highway south of Ozona to the Cedar Hill Cemetery as the first move toward local participation in a statewide highway beautification program. Red bud, cenizo and salt cedar have been adopted as the plants to be used in the highway planting, these varieties being hardy native trees and shrubs and considered most likely to thrive. 

January 27, 1955
Two Ozona cafes, the M&M Café on Highway 290, and El Sombrero, Tony Garza’s café next to Popular Dry Goods store, will aid the March of Dimes polio fund Friday of this week by donating all receipts from sale of coffee to the fund. Both cafés will have containers in which coffee drinkers may make whatever contribution they want to the March of Dimes fund. All coffee receipts throughout the day at both cafés go to the polio fighting fund.

January 30, 1975 
Congressman Bob Krueger, recently elected U. S. Representative for the 21st Congressional District of Texas, took the oath of office administered by Speaker of the House Carl Albert Tuesday, January 14. Krueger replaced retiring Congressman O. C. Fisher.