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Ozona History
December 03, 2025
December 5, 1935
Fire resulting from a defective flue damaged the roof of a servant house and washroom at the Scott Peters home here Tuesday morning. The blaze was the occasion of the second call for Ozona's new fire truck since its installation early last summer, and the first to an actual fire.
The first call several months ago was a false alarm to the Mike Couch store across the draw, a passer-by turning on the alarm when he saw employees of the store carrying out a blazing oil stove.
The blaze started in the attic of the servants’ quarters at the Peters home. The flames never broke through, but it was necessary to tear into the roof and ceiling to get to the smoldering fire to quench it.
Fire resulting from a defective flue damaged the roof of a servant house and washroom at the Scott Peters home here Tuesday morning. The blaze was the occasion of the second call for Ozona's new fire truck since its installation early last summer, and the first to an actual fire.
The first call several months ago was a false alarm to the Mike Couch store across the draw, a passer-by turning on the alarm when he saw employees of the store carrying out a blazing oil stove.
The blaze started in the attic of the servants’ quarters at the Peters home. The flames never broke through, but it was necessary to tear into the roof and ceiling to get to the smoldering fire to quench it.
December 6, 1945
Baseball in high school, with possible competition from teams in other schools included in District 4B, will be considered when members of the District Committee of the Interscholastic League, composed of superintendents and coaches of member schools, meet next Saturday in Sonora. Supt. C. S. Denham and Coach L. B. T. Sikes of Ozona will attend the meeting and will present a proposal that the schools organize baseball teams for competition this spring.
Ozona is committed to inaugurating baseball among boys of the Ozona High School if one or more schools in the district will form teams for competition. Supt. Denham said. It is hoped that at least two other schools will put teams in the field, but if one nearby school has a team, Ozona will organize a squad in the spring, local school officials said. Basketball will be the other topic up for consideration at the meeting of district executives.
Baseball in high school, with possible competition from teams in other schools included in District 4B, will be considered when members of the District Committee of the Interscholastic League, composed of superintendents and coaches of member schools, meet next Saturday in Sonora. Supt. C. S. Denham and Coach L. B. T. Sikes of Ozona will attend the meeting and will present a proposal that the schools organize baseball teams for competition this spring.
Ozona is committed to inaugurating baseball among boys of the Ozona High School if one or more schools in the district will form teams for competition. Supt. Denham said. It is hoped that at least two other schools will put teams in the field, but if one nearby school has a team, Ozona will organize a squad in the spring, local school officials said. Basketball will be the other topic up for consideration at the meeting of district executives.
December 1, 1955
A Civil Defense publication carries an announcement by the U. S. Air Force that the eight Aircraft Control Warning stations and ten auxiliary sites which are to form a part of the 33rd Air Defense Division’s radar - warning network in the Southwest, costing a total of $18.5 million, will be in operation “by next Summer.” The eight new radar squadrons, to be located at Kileen, Ozona, Eagle Pass, Zapata, Rockport, Port Isabel, Lufkin and Lake Charles, Louisiana, will be manned by an average of 155 airmen and 15 officers each. Brigadier General Williams P. Nuckols, 33rd Division Commander, said the squadrons will be in operation “by next summer.”
A Civil Defense publication carries an announcement by the U. S. Air Force that the eight Aircraft Control Warning stations and ten auxiliary sites which are to form a part of the 33rd Air Defense Division’s radar - warning network in the Southwest, costing a total of $18.5 million, will be in operation “by next Summer.” The eight new radar squadrons, to be located at Kileen, Ozona, Eagle Pass, Zapata, Rockport, Port Isabel, Lufkin and Lake Charles, Louisiana, will be manned by an average of 155 airmen and 15 officers each. Brigadier General Williams P. Nuckols, 33rd Division Commander, said the squadrons will be in operation “by next summer.”
December 4, 1975
PANTHER KILLED ON CROCKETT COUNTY RANCH—These Fredricksburg men, Robert Probst and Kermit Eckhardt, were very surprised when they went deer hunting last weekend on the Hugh Childress ranch west of Ozona and bagged a panther along with their quota of deer. The big cat was shot about 4 p.m. Saturday by Eckhardt. He ran wounded into a cave on the ranch. The men trailed him and when he made his exit from the cave he was shot and killed. The panther weighed approximately 125 pounds and measured about 6 feet from head to tail. This was the second panther in the space of about two years to be killed in the county.
PANTHER KILLED ON CROCKETT COUNTY RANCH—These Fredricksburg men, Robert Probst and Kermit Eckhardt, were very surprised when they went deer hunting last weekend on the Hugh Childress ranch west of Ozona and bagged a panther along with their quota of deer. The big cat was shot about 4 p.m. Saturday by Eckhardt. He ran wounded into a cave on the ranch. The men trailed him and when he made his exit from the cave he was shot and killed. The panther weighed approximately 125 pounds and measured about 6 feet from head to tail. This was the second panther in the space of about two years to be killed in the county.
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