Ozona History

Nov. 8, 1945
First 1946 new car model to be shown in Ozona was on display yesterday at the North Motor Co. The 1956 Chevrolet, first new car on floors of Ozona automobile agencies in four years, was placed on display yesterday morning and many “lookers” were filing through the showroom to feast their eyes on a new automobile. 

Nov. 3, 1955
Justifiable homicide was the court’s finding following investigation and hearing into the facts surrounding the fatal shooting of W.C. (Bill) Cook in the yard of the family home here last Thursday night. 
Cook was killed instantly shortly after 10 o’clock Thursday night when he was shot five times with a .22 caliber rifle fired by his 15-year-old son, Billy. The shooting followed a family argument. 
In an unusual hearing before County Judge Houston Smith, sitting as a juvenile court judge here Wednesday morning, details of the incidents leading up tot the shooting and the death scene were described by the principal witnesses, the boy and his mother, Mrs. W. C. Cook, and by Sheriff V.O. Earnest.

Nov. 4, 1965

The rock chimney of one of the barracks buildings at Fort Lancaster formed the background as a group of state dignitaries conferred at the site Monday in company with Crockett county officials, members of the Historical Survey Committee and interested citizens. In the picture are State Senator Darsey B. Hardeman; State Archeologist Curtis Tunnell, John Ben Sheppard of Odessa, State Historical Survey Committee Chairman, and Henry E. Meadows of Midland, representing the heirs of the late Mr. and Mrs. Howard B. Cox, who donated the land, on which the fort is located, to Crockett county for its “preservation, maintenance and public use, benefit and enjoyment.”

Nov. 6, 1975

TIRED CLOWN LEFT OVER FROM HALLOWEEN — The staff, here at the Stockman, thought we had found an orange and black stuffed doll, but as it was, it was a real live boy. The Halloween activities so exhausted him, he took time out for a nap in a recliner in the comer of the office. He was hardly disturbed by press noise or anything else for that matter. However, he's up and at 'em this week. He is 14-month-old Mark Ramirez, son of Mr. and Mrs. Julian Ramirez, Jr.