Ozona History

June 25, 1936
With committees working feverishly this week on various features and business houses and individuals shaping plans for their parts in the event, plans were rapidly taking form for a mile-long parade which will be a feature of the opening day program of the Ozona Rodeo, Race Meet, Stock Show and Sale the last three days of next week. 
More than a dozen commercial floats, competing for attractive cash prizes, hundreds of cowboys, saddle horses, cowgirls, Indians, ancient and modern transportation facilities, and miscellaneous features appropriate to the Western motif and the occasion of Texas’ celebration of its hundredth birthday will march in the parade line. 

June 27, 1946
K. H. Kinser, operating the Kinser Flying Service at the Ozona Airport, returned last week from San Antonio where he conferred with CAA and Veterans Administration officials regarding the requirements for qualifying the Ozona airport for giving free instruction to veterans under the GI Bill of Rights. Details of improvements necessary for such qualifications were secured and Mr. Kinser announced that with local cooperation the GI school can be established and all Crockett County veterans who desire can take flying lessons at the expense of the government under the GI bill. 
Before the local port can be qualified for the school, Mr. Kinser learned it will be necessary to erect another hangar at the port and to establish mechanical service for the care of trainer planes at the port. The present hanger, now nearing completion, will hangar four planes, and Mr. Kinser plans to have that many planes in service for flight instruction or one for each 15 GI students.

June 21, 1956
A 33-year-old 190-pound truck driver, father of four children, was arrested in Ozona Sunday morning by Sheriff V. O. Earnest and his deputies and turned over to Sheriff Douglas Kuebel of Boerne to face charges of kidnapping and raping a 14-year-old Dallas girl. The sheriff’s department was alerted here early Sunday morning to be on the look-out for a gray refrigerator truck, meagerly described by the girl after she was ejected from the truck at Comfort, Kendall County.

June 23, 1966
Approximately sixty visitors were added to the Diamond Jubilee celebration week crowd Saturday when the Permian Basin Historical Society held its convention in Ozona, and at the same time ceremonies of dedication were arranged for the installation of interpretive plaques on three Medallion buildings in Ozona. 
John Ben Shepperd of Odessa, chairman of the Texas Historical Survey Committee, and president of the Permian Basin Historical Society, presided at the afternoon meeting at the civic center. Featured speaker was Dr. Grover Cleveland Ramsey of Austin who spoke on old Camp Melvin in northwest Crockett County. During the morning, plaques were dedicated on the Crockett County jail, the courthouse and the Ozona National Bank building.

June 24, 1976
FASTEST MULE IN THE WEST — "Jake" owned by the 7U Ranch Company is the fastest mule in this part of the country. He has run five times undefeated at the Iraan Bicentennial Celebration and "World’s Fastest Mule Race.’’ His last win was Saturday in Iraan. Shown with Jake are Jeff Sutton, James Childress, Harry Holmes and Bob Childress.