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Ozona History
June 05, 2025
June 6, 1935
Something new in softball will be witnessed by local enthusiasts here Monday afternoon when the Lions Club team of Ozona engages the Lions Club team from Sonora. Players negotiating bases and playing positions mounted upon specially trained and reputedly fast Mexican Nightingale donkeys to be brought here. The game will be called at 5 o’clock at Powell Field. Preceding the game a parade will be staged on the downtown streets, players riding their mounts. A return donkey softball game will be held between the same two teams at Sonora Tuesday afternoon at 5 o’clock.
June 7, 1945
It was “small arms fire” but it was “concentrated” and Ozonans counted damage in the thousands of dollars Saturday afternoon after a flash flood and hail storm swept across the town for a concentrated attack which lasted little longer than a half hour. The deluge of water and ice, which fell in a veritable torrent, left destruction in its wake. Trees and shrubs were stripped of leaves and small branches, all but the sturdiest roofs were mangled and shredded and hundreds of window panes were shattered. Punctured roofs and shattered window panes which let in the deluge of water falling with the pelting hail stones added to the damage to homes, flooding floors, streaking papered walls, soaking floor coverings and furniture.
Something new in softball will be witnessed by local enthusiasts here Monday afternoon when the Lions Club team of Ozona engages the Lions Club team from Sonora. Players negotiating bases and playing positions mounted upon specially trained and reputedly fast Mexican Nightingale donkeys to be brought here. The game will be called at 5 o’clock at Powell Field. Preceding the game a parade will be staged on the downtown streets, players riding their mounts. A return donkey softball game will be held between the same two teams at Sonora Tuesday afternoon at 5 o’clock.
June 7, 1945
It was “small arms fire” but it was “concentrated” and Ozonans counted damage in the thousands of dollars Saturday afternoon after a flash flood and hail storm swept across the town for a concentrated attack which lasted little longer than a half hour. The deluge of water and ice, which fell in a veritable torrent, left destruction in its wake. Trees and shrubs were stripped of leaves and small branches, all but the sturdiest roofs were mangled and shredded and hundreds of window panes were shattered. Punctured roofs and shattered window panes which let in the deluge of water falling with the pelting hail stones added to the damage to homes, flooding floors, streaking papered walls, soaking floor coverings and furniture.
June 2, 1955
JUST ANOTHER DAY in the banking business it was at the Ozona National Bank Wednesday, June 1, when that venerable institution observed its 50th anniversary in the service of Ozona and surrounding livestock and oil territory. The above scene on a typical day at the bank shows customers at each teller window. On the left, back to the camera, is W. M. Barbee in conversation with Active Vice President Lowell Littleton. In the center, Cashier J. W. Howell, behind the counter cashes a check for Byron Gray, Ozona band director. On the right, Rancher Austin Millspaugh waits for Assistant Cashier Geo. Russell, Jr., to complete a telephone conversation. On the day the photo was made, Roy H. Thompson, another assistant cashier, was on vacation. The opening in the background looks into the spacious bookkeeping room of the newly remodeled interior. (Photo by John Hickman)
JUST ANOTHER DAY in the banking business it was at the Ozona National Bank Wednesday, June 1, when that venerable institution observed its 50th anniversary in the service of Ozona and surrounding livestock and oil territory. The above scene on a typical day at the bank shows customers at each teller window. On the left, back to the camera, is W. M. Barbee in conversation with Active Vice President Lowell Littleton. In the center, Cashier J. W. Howell, behind the counter cashes a check for Byron Gray, Ozona band director. On the right, Rancher Austin Millspaugh waits for Assistant Cashier Geo. Russell, Jr., to complete a telephone conversation. On the day the photo was made, Roy H. Thompson, another assistant cashier, was on vacation. The opening in the background looks into the spacious bookkeeping room of the newly remodeled interior. (Photo by John Hickman)
June 3, 1965
Flying W Egg Truck Overturns; Scrambled Eggs A truck loaded with 235 cases of Flying W Cage Eggs being transported by the Flying W. Ranch Cage Egg Company here overturned on Highway 163 about eight miles north of Ozona late Saturday — the result, a damaged truck and about 35 cases of scrambled eggs. Howard Mock, driver of the truck, escaped with only minor injuries. He lost control of the truck when he struck the back of a slow moving car on the highway, a tourist couple driving slow because of two bad tires. The truck swerved off the highway and in an attempt to miss a tree in the right of way, Mock cut the truck wheels sharply and it overturned. Around 200 undamaged cases of the eggs were removed from the wrecked truck to be sorted again.
Flying W Egg Truck Overturns; Scrambled Eggs A truck loaded with 235 cases of Flying W Cage Eggs being transported by the Flying W. Ranch Cage Egg Company here overturned on Highway 163 about eight miles north of Ozona late Saturday — the result, a damaged truck and about 35 cases of scrambled eggs. Howard Mock, driver of the truck, escaped with only minor injuries. He lost control of the truck when he struck the back of a slow moving car on the highway, a tourist couple driving slow because of two bad tires. The truck swerved off the highway and in an attempt to miss a tree in the right of way, Mock cut the truck wheels sharply and it overturned. Around 200 undamaged cases of the eggs were removed from the wrecked truck to be sorted again.
June 5, 1975
ALMOST READY FOR OCCUPANCY — The new wing to the Crockett County Hospital, which will be known as the Crockett County Care Center, is completed on the outside, down to landscaping. Furniture must be arranged inside the building and several minor adjustments made before residents will be able to move in. The entrance patio has been furnished with tables and chairs. At right is the wing with private rooms. Most drapes have been hung and floors finished. Mopping up operations are in progress now. A meeting of the Hospital Auxiliary has been scheduled in the building for next Tuesday.
ALMOST READY FOR OCCUPANCY — The new wing to the Crockett County Hospital, which will be known as the Crockett County Care Center, is completed on the outside, down to landscaping. Furniture must be arranged inside the building and several minor adjustments made before residents will be able to move in. The entrance patio has been furnished with tables and chairs. At right is the wing with private rooms. Most drapes have been hung and floors finished. Mopping up operations are in progress now. A meeting of the Hospital Auxiliary has been scheduled in the building for next Tuesday.
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