Ozona History

June 4, 1936
A petition asking the Commissioners Court of Crockett County to call an election for the purpose of deciding the question of whether or not beer or wines of not more than four percent alcoholic content may be sold in Justice Precinct No. 1, which includes Ozona, was being circulated here yesterday. The petition bore the names of more than fifty voters, more than the required number to make such an election mandatory, late yesterday afternoon. Other names were being added to make a total of sixty or more, to make certain of coming within the statutory requirement of ten percent of the qualified voters. 

June 6, 1946
County Judge Houston Smith and members of the Crockett County Commissioners Court, with the county judge and commissioners of Reagan County, appeared before the Texas Highway Commission in Austin Monday to make application to the Commission for pavement of a 30-mile stretch of highway through the Todd and Powell oil fields in this county under the Federal government’s farm-to-market post-war highway construction program. The federal government will spend approximately $75 million in Texas under the farm-to-market plan and the federal grant, with state funds, will be distributed over the state by districts for construction of lateral roads.

May 31, 1956
Another rabid fox attack, this time on the outskirts of Ozona, was reported this week, touching off another effort on the part of authorities to have all dogs here vaccinated and a countywide effort to devise some means of thinning the ranks of varmints in the county. 
A rabid fox attacked first a dog on the Dick Henderson ranch a mile north of Ozona and then turned on Ranch Foreman Hug Boyd when the latter went to the door to see what was disturbing the dog. 
When the animal saw Boyd inside the screen door of his home it charged the door viciously, Boyd reported. Boyd stepped back and seized a shotgun and cautiously poling the muzzle around the partly opened screen fired at the rabid beast, but missed. The animal charged the door even more viciously and it took several shots, under the handicap of a barely cracked doorway, to finish the fox.

June 2, 1966
Two accidents involving the same bridge a mile west of Ozona within a period of less than twelve hours had local Sheriff’s department officers looking with a jaundiced eye at the concrete structure.
Lucio Diaz, shearing captain, collided with the bridge abutment on his way home from Alpine, where he had taken his daughter, Lucia, to summer college Tuesday. Diaz escaped with only minor head and face injuries but his pickup truck was badly damaged. 
Then about 7 a.m. Wednesday morning, William T. See, service man stationed at Anchorage, Alaska, driving a Volkswagen slammed into the same bridge, but going in the opposite direction. See is receiving treatment in the Crockett County Hospital for severe head injuries suffered in the crash. His Volkswagen was heavily damaged.

June 3, 1976
FAMILIAR SUMMER SCENE -- A grass fire at the Charles E. Davidson III Ranch east of Ozona last week burned 50 to 100 acres before it was extinguished. Cause of the fire was not known, but continued dry weather will no doubt result in many such fires around the county. Last summer set a record for Ozona Volunteer Firemen fighting grass and range fires. Many were assisting firemen in area towns and counties.