Ozona History

March 26, 1936
An attractive wayside park has recently been completed on the highway east of Ozona on land donated for the purpose by Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Friend, Jr. The park was built by the maintenance division of the Highway Department, the Ozona Woman’s Club assisting in planning and securing the site. The club is making efforts to save another park built on the Barnhart road north of town, on land to be given by Floyd Henderson.

March 26, 1936
A short circuited wire in an automatic, oil burning water heater in the basement of the Hotel Ozona caused a run of the fire truck to the building last Friday. Fire chief Joe North and his crew turned water from the emergency tank carried on the truck and cooled off the smoking fixture after the electricity had been shut off. No damage was done by the fire, and the water heating equipment is being placed in first class condition by the hotel management.

March 28, 1946
Bids from contractors for construction of Ozona’s new Methodist Church will be received by the church’s building committee here on Wednesday, March 24. Scott Peters is chairman of the build committee. Haynes & Strange, Lubbock architects, have completed plans and specifications for the new structure and these have been approved by the congregation. 
The new church home will be built of tile faced with brick and will include an auditorium with a seating capacity of approximately 300 and an education building for church school activities. Since the local Methodist Church was destroyed by fire March 7, 1942, the congregation has used the high school building and a business building in the downtown sector, known as the Methodist Center, which has been rented, for worship services and other church activities.

March 29, 1956
The Texas Blind Shops Caravan is in Ozona today for the annual sale of ironing boards, covers and pads, brooms, mops and floor mats, all products of Texas blind workmen in Blind Shops or Lighthouses. The Caravan is brought to Ozona, this the second year, by the Ozona Lions Club, with a double-barreled purpose, one, to help the blind sell their products and to earn a part of the fund for its own Little League program in Ozona. The trucks bearing the Blind Shops products will be parked in front of the Ozona post office all day and members of the Lions Club will make a house-to-house canvas in selling the articles. Several hundred dollars worth of products were sold here last year and the Lions hope to better their mark today.

March 24, 1966
PTA Youths of the Month for March are Celia Houston and Billy Carson. Celia is an OHS senior and has participated in band since the 7th grade. She is secretary of the OHS band this year and represented OHS in the recent Midland band solo contest where she received the highest rating of any Ozona student participating. 
Celia is an honor student, assistant editor of the Lion’s Roar and in the cast of the one-act play for Interscholastic League competition. During her years in OHS she has participated in basketball and has been manager of the volleyball team. 
Billy Carson is vice president of the senior class. He is secretary of the FFA Club and vice president of the OHS band. Billy is an outstanding, all around athlete. He was captain of the football team, basketball and is captain of the track team.

March 25, 1976
MR. & MISS OHS were selected last week by vote of the student body at Ozona High School. Voted Mr. OHS was Henry Fay, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fay, outstanding football player and a senior student. Dawn Burns, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Burns was voted Miss OHS. Dawn is a senior and a cheerleader. She is FFA Sweetheart and is Ozona’s reigning rodeo queen.