Ozona History

October 24, 1935
Raymond Edward Eggres itinerant, worked out a $14 fine assessed in justice of the peace court here for the theft of a leather coat and a .32 pistol. The man worked out the fine on the city streets. 
Fernando De Leon, Mexican, is being held in jail here on a theft count following an examining trial Tuesday. The man’s case will be heard when out of town witnesses can appear. De Leon is charged with the theft of a six shooter from Paul Hallcomb, for whom he had been working about nine days. A woman witness at the examining trial testified that the man had given her a gun which she had kept for him for several days and later returned. Charged with disturbing the peace, Louis Sapp pleaded guilty yesterday in Justice of Peace Bill Johnigan's court. A $14 fine was assessed.

October 25, 1945
The oft repeated story of the hitchhiker who turns out to be a hijacker, taking his benefactor’s car and money after being accommodated with a ride, was re-enacted last week on the highway from Ozona to San Angelo, with Sam Beasley, Ozona barber, the victim. Two young men, both in civilian clothes, stood at the side of the road between Sonora and Eldorado and Mr. Beasley, on the way to San Angelo, stopped to pick them up. The pair got in the car and told Beasley that they wanted to go to San Angelo. 
They said they had not had anything to eat for some time, the Ozonan said, and he told them he would feed them when they got to San Angelo. They slept most of the way, he said, and when they reached San Angelo, Mr. Beasley bought the men a meal. The hitchhikers said they were on their way to Dallas and Mr. Beasley offered to take them to the outskirts of San Angelo on the Ballinger Road where they would have a better chance to thumb a ride. They accepted the offer and when they reached the edge of town, one of the men pulled out a pistol and pointing it at Beasley ordered him to keep driving "You are going to drive us to Dallas,” they told him. 
The Ozonan continued to drive down the highway, and a few miles this side of Miles, Texas they ordered him to stop, telling him that they would do the driving from there. While the car was stopped, one of the men ordered Beasley to produce his certificate of title to his car and to sign it over to them. "I was convinced that they intended to kill me one way or another, whether I signed the title certificate or not,” Mr. Beasley said. Seizing the first opportunity to dash away, then, he took to his heels down the highway, in the direction of San AngeIo, expecting at any second to receive a bullet in the back. The men did not fire at him, however, he said.

October 20, 1955
First meals from Ozona's new school cafeteria, one of the finest equipped of its kind in the state, were served to from 400 to 500 students of all grades at noon Tuesday when the cafeteria opened its doors for the first time. In the cafeteria itself, approximately 250 students of the high school and junior high school filed through the serving chutes to receive trays bearing smothered steaks, mashed potatoes with cream gravy, green beans, lettuce and tomato salad, California plums, apricot, cobbler and fresh milk — all deliciously prepared by the crew of expert cooks assembled by Mrs. Guss Maxwell, cafeteria manager. Panel trucks, with specially designed equipment, transported the steaming food to the North and South Elementary schools where other helpers served trays to the smaller children.

October 23, 1975
OZONA VFW POST #6109 donates United States flag to Ozona High School. Donating the flag is Post Commander Tom Montgomery. Accepting on behalf of the youngsters is Richard Harrison, president of the Ozona High School Student Council and Superintendent of schools Foy Moody. The Post donated four flags to the school in all.