Ozona History

November 28, 1935
Opening of a school museum on the third floor of the High School building, in which various curious and objects of historical interest are being displayed, was announced this week by Supt. C. S. Denham. In the display will be the two skeletons of cave dwellers found recently on the Noelke ranch in this county, a dinosaur bone founded a few years ago, and Indian collection in possession of the school for several years, ancient and modern pistols and rifles, branding irons and other articles.

November 29, 1945
A sharp drop in sheep breeding stock on Crockett County ranches is revealed in the first tabulation of the recent 1945 farm census, according to a tabulation of results of the census issued by the Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census. Ewes dropped from 371,827 on 130 ranches in this county reporting in the 1940 census to 350,382 on 118 ranches reporting in 1945. The overall number of sheep in the county, however, declined only about 2,000 head from the 1940 report, 388.110 this year against 390,280 five year- ago.

November 24, 1955
CUSTOMER ALWAYS RIGHT — “Sally’s- Hat Shop’; saleslady, Mrs. L. B. Cox, III, center, is bent on pleasing the customer, not improving her, in this scene from the playlet presented by the Woman’s Forum. The customers who are pleased with their selections are Mrs. Dempster Jones, left, who goes for black, and Mrs. Joe Tom Davidson, right, who likes ’em a little frillier.

November 25, 1965
Crockett County Judge Brock Jones died of an apparent heart attack Monday afternoon around five o’clock after being involved in a wreck on a county road near his ranch east of Ozona. He and his daughter, Elizabeth, were deer hunting when he spotted a deer and told his daughter, who was driving, to stop the pick-up. The vehicle skidded and overturned in the loose gravel, severely lacerating the girl’s arm. The judge was apparently uninjured and fired several shots with his rifle in a vain attempt to summon help. After applying a tourniquet to his daughter’s arm and leaving his watch with instructions to loosen the tourniquet at intervals, he set out for help. He was found by the roadside a short while later about a mile from the scene of the wreck, by Pete North who rushed to the Bailey Ranch and called for help. Having no knowledge of the wreck, officers and a Janes ambulance came upon the scene and picked up the injured girl before arriving at the spot where the Judge had apparently collapsed and died instantly.