Ozona History

October 8, 1936
Complete modernization of the Home Economics department of Ozona High School went a step nearer realization during the past week when two new Singer cabinet type electric sewing machines were added to the department equipment. The two new machines replaced old treddle type machines that have been in use in the department for several years. The department has four machines, two of the treddle type and the two new power driven machines. Miss Ada Moss is instructor in this department.

October 10, 1946
Erection of a church for the benefit of the negro population of Ozona has been adopted as a project of the Ozona Community Council and after a discussion of the project at the meeting of the group this week, Mrs. Strick Harvick was named as chairman of a committee to study the plan. This committee will study plans for the project, consult architects and contractors and submit their findings at the next meeting of the Council. The county has offered to donate two blocks of land which the county owns west of the old Ramirez boot shop site in the southwest area of the city as a site for the church. If erection of the church is found possible, a drive for public subscription to finance the project will be launched.

October 4, 1956
Crockett County’s property valuations for tax purposes climbed to a new high this year with a total valuation for county purposes of $31,734,470, a raise of $2,865, 420 over .the total for 1955, according to the tax rolls just completed in the office of the county tax assessor and collector, V. 0. Earnest. The total values included $27,007,215 in real property values and $4,727,255 in personal property.

October 7, 1965
While the county judge and several members of the Commissioners Court were out of the city attending a convention in El Paso, the Crockett County Hospital Board marked time early this week after two emergency sessions were called by Chairman Jack Baggett, following the dismissal late last week of Mrs. Charles L. Williams, Jr., R.N. as head of the nursing staff of the hospital, a position she has held since the hospital was created here. Mrs. Williams was dismissed by newly appointed Hospital Administrator Norman Olson, formerly of Kerrville, who was employed by the hospital as anesthetist and promoted to administrator when veteran administrator, J. B. Post, asked to be relieved of the responsibility because of poor health. Olson had had no previous experience as a hospital administrator, though he had served as nurse and anesthetist in the Veterans Hospital at Kerrville and in the Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital there.

October 9, 1975
OZONA LION FOOTBALL QUEEN is Miss Kathy Sewell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rip Sewell and Ozona High School cheerleader. Kathy was chosen by vote of the team and officially crowned during ceremonies before the homecoming game Friday night. Escorting her is Lion captain Lonnie Martinez.