Ozona History

April 25, 1935
Construction work on Ozona’s new fire station got under way this week. The station is being built by the North Motor Co. as a part of the building now occupied by that concern. The facilities for housing the fire equipment is located adjoining the main building of the motor company but is to be entirely separate and used for fire equipment only.

April 26, 1845
Jim Mason, 38. of Ozona remained in critical condition in a San Angelo hospital this week following injuries suffered in a dynamite blast in a seismograph test well near Christoval Thursday morning. Mason suffered lacerations about the fare and neck, a broken wrist, ankle and foot and severe body bruises when he was blown into the air by a premature explosion of 60 pounds of dynamite which he was lowering into the test hole. Stanley Reynolds, 18, who was working with Mason on a seismograph crew which makes headquarters in Ozona, was also injured, less seriously. Reynolds suffered injuries about the face when struck by flying rock and dirt.

April 21, 1955
First and second grade pupils of Ozona schools nearly 200 of them, received their first shots of Salk polio vaccine Tuesday and Wednesday in a mass inoculation given by Drs. H. B. Tandy and Ralph Simon and their nurses and staff nurses of the Crockett County hospital. The children were loaded by classes into school busses and driven to the hospital where the shots were given. The children were for the most part very orderly and few of them even cried, the doctors reported. One youngster panicked at the sight of the needle, and bolted, but she was later returned by her mother and submitted to the ordeal. A total of 179 pupils of the two grades had been signed up to receive the shots and all but 11 of these reported the first day, the others being absent from school because of illness or other causes. Most of these were inoculated Wednesday and the balance will receive the shots as soon as they report. A supplemental supply of vaccine was flown by air express from Austin Wednesday to provide inoculations for 14 children in the first and second grades of the negro school, overlooked in the original totals on which the original vaccine order was based. These children are to receive their shots today.

April 22, 1965
The first Day Camp for Crockett and Sutton County Girl Scouts will be held May 24. thru May 28. Site for the camp will be 5 miles north of town on the Bill Baggett ranch. Plans are underway by the Crockett and Sutton County Neighborhood Associations for this year’s camp which they are hoping will be an annual affair.

April 24, 1975
BETA SIGMA PHI SORORITY MEMBERS get busy with their bicentennial project, planting the area around the Crockett County Museum area at the courthouse annex. Members of the sorority spent several afternoons last week preparing the beds and planting dozens of flats of bedding plants. The predominant plant will be red, white and blue petunias, in keeping with the patriotic theme of the 1976 celebration.