Ozona History

June 25, 1925
MEXICAN MISSIONS 
By Rev. D Ruiz, Mexican Baptist Association—This will be organized at Christoval on July 11 with twelve little Baptist churches of West Texas. We shall have from 50 to 60 representatives sent by these local churches and will be in session until July 13. The Texas Mexican Baptist Convention will meet at Kerrville on the 15th of July and the Association is to send messengers to the convention. 
It is hoped that many good people will come to Christoval. About ten will go from the Ozona Mexican church and we know Aspermont, Abilene, Sweetwater, Bronte, Hamlin, Colorado, Big Spring, Fort Stockton and Alpine will send their representatives. This is the first Mexican organization of the kind ever organized in West Texas. The Bible Institute or the Mexican Baptist Encampment of Christoval is from July 22 to 31st. Preachers and teachers from all over Texas will come. 
We shall have from 500 to 700 Roman Catholics on the ground every day. In the morning different classes will be under various teachers; the S. S. Manual, the Young Peoples’ Manual, the Woman's Missionary Manual, Winning Souls and other fine books will be taught. Good singers and fine singing in Spanish will sweeten the atmosphere from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day for ten days.

June 27, 1935
With a baseball game each afternoon between the Ozona Giants and the Texon Oilers, contenders in the Permian Basin League pennant chase, a dance each night on the fairgrounds platform, the All-American Show carnival attractions on the fairgrounds midway all week, starting Monday, Ozona is all set to entertain the stay-at homes and visitors from surrounding territory during the week of the Fourth. 
On the day of the Fourth, a free barbecue in the city park, a horned frog race immediately after the dinner, with a purse of $50 to the winner, and the baseball game immediately following will give a full afternoon of entertainment. The All-American Shows, composed of six riding devices, six shows and twenty clean concessions, will pitch tents here Monday for a week's stand. The carnival company is described as one of the largest now in the South.

June 28, 1945
Another spirited calf roping exhibition is in store for Ozona fans next Sunday afternoon at the Crockett County Fair Grounds arena, officials of the Roping Club announced this week. Invitations have gone out again to the top roping talent of the area and since there is no competitive events in this immediate section, a good representation from the top hands of West Texas is excited to participate. 
The two-day rodeo and contests at Mertzon last weekend drew heavily on the regular Sunday afternoon show here last Sunday, but even without the usual run of visiting ropers and the heavy end of the local talent, there were some interesting contests in jack-pot calf roping, bellings and matched affairs, plus a bit of goat roping for the youngsters. The loudspeaker announcing system was also out of use last Sunday, but will be back on the job for the show Sunday afternoon. 
A new and able announcer will be at the microphone on that occasion, it was announced, and an interesting and entertaining show is promised. No admission charge is made for the Sunday shows, but the hat is passed among the crowd for a free-will offering to help pay the board bill for the herd of 39 Brahma calves who are out each Sunday to dodge the whirling loops. 

June 23, 1955
A spectacular diving exhibition by a mixed diving team of men and women from Webb Air Force Base in Big Spring, a parade of thirty-nine Ozona bathing beauties and by tiny tot bathing beauties, will be features of the second annual Ozona Lions Club Water Carnival and Bathing Beauty Revue set for Saturday night at the north swimming pool. The event is sponsored by the Ozona Lions Club, inaugurated last year and shown to a capacity crowd which packed the rim of the big pool. 
Efforts are being made this year to secure a set of temporary bleacher seats to ring the pool so that patrons will have a better view of the show. Lt. Bill Higgenbothen and his diving team, composed of four Air Force men and their wives from Webb AFB, all former intercollegiate diving competitors and a finished exhibition team, has been secured for a diving and clowning exhibition as a feature of the local show. The eight divers have appeared in exhibitions at Webb and in area swim meets and are reported to have made a big hit with crowds in each appearance. 
Another feature of the show will be a water ballet performed by a group of Ozona girl swimmers. Misses Barbara Fields and Ann Ratliff are directing the ballet group in a series of underwater ballet numbers set to music.

June 24, 1965
RIBBON BURNING — Crockett County Judge Brock Jones, third from right, stands poised with his butane torch ready to “burn" the ribbon marking the formal opening of the new Shell Oil Co., gas processing plant two miles northwest of Ozona as Shell observed “open house" at the plant Saturday to host some 300 West Texas visitors to tour the plant and eat a barbecue dinner served by Odessa’s famous Chuck Wagon Gang. 
In the picture left to right are Glenn Sutton, C. O. Walker and Rex Hayldier, county commissioner Rev. Max Brown, who gave the invocation, Judge Jones, A. D. Rippetoe, operator-superintendent of the plant and S. R. Payne, Midland, supervisor of Shell plant operations.