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March 11, 2026
March 11, 1976
March 12, 1936
Margaret Ella Drake, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Drake, will graduate with highest scholastic honors as valedictorian of the Ozona High School graduating class of 1936, it was announced yesterday by Supt. C. S. Denham. Miss Drake maintained an average grade of 93.75 for the first three and a half years of her high school career, the grade average being taken at the close of the second semester of the senior year.
Margaret Ella Drake, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Drake, will graduate with highest scholastic honors as valedictorian of the Ozona High School graduating class of 1936, it was announced yesterday by Supt. C. S. Denham. Miss Drake maintained an average grade of 93.75 for the first three and a half years of her high school career, the grade average being taken at the close of the second semester of the senior year.
March 14, 1946
Heverto Vargas, 26y, veteran of nearly 3 years of Army service, who fought the Germans across France and into Germany, won the Bronze Star for meritorious service, the combat infantry badge and several battle stars, and emerged unscathed, was killed Friday morning when a car in which he was riding overturned on the high way between Eldorado and Christoval.
Jesus Ramirez, also a discharged veteran and driver of the car, and Pvt. Joe Gonzales, another passenger, were slightly hurt in the accident. The car missed a low culvert by a matter of inches, the wheels on one side dropping into the ditch and the car overturned. Vargas was taken to San Angelo hospital but died a short time after arriving there. He is a son of the late Santiago Vargas, former Ozona merchant, and Mrs. Vargas, who now makes her home in California.
Heverto Vargas, 26y, veteran of nearly 3 years of Army service, who fought the Germans across France and into Germany, won the Bronze Star for meritorious service, the combat infantry badge and several battle stars, and emerged unscathed, was killed Friday morning when a car in which he was riding overturned on the high way between Eldorado and Christoval.
Jesus Ramirez, also a discharged veteran and driver of the car, and Pvt. Joe Gonzales, another passenger, were slightly hurt in the accident. The car missed a low culvert by a matter of inches, the wheels on one side dropping into the ditch and the car overturned. Vargas was taken to San Angelo hospital but died a short time after arriving there. He is a son of the late Santiago Vargas, former Ozona merchant, and Mrs. Vargas, who now makes her home in California.
March 8, 1956
Most Crockett County voters "let George do it" here Saturday in the almost uncontested balloting on the question of issuing $200,000 in bonds for the construction of 20 teacher housing units, a new auditorium at the South Elementary school and repairs to the North Elementary building. The issue was approved by a margin of six to one, with 134 voters favoring the issue to 22 against. The teacher housing units are to be constructed on school property on the hillside east of the high school.
Most Crockett County voters "let George do it" here Saturday in the almost uncontested balloting on the question of issuing $200,000 in bonds for the construction of 20 teacher housing units, a new auditorium at the South Elementary school and repairs to the North Elementary building. The issue was approved by a margin of six to one, with 134 voters favoring the issue to 22 against. The teacher housing units are to be constructed on school property on the hillside east of the high school.
March 19, 1966
MOC HO A, Vietnam — Captain Larry M. Lewis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ted M. Lewis of Ozona, Texas was recently awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge for his participation in combat operations in Vietnam. Captain Lewis, a member of the US Army’s elite Special Forces, the highly trained guerrilla experts who wear the green beret, is stationed in the Mekong Delta with Detachment B-41, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) approximately 55 miles West of Saigon near the Cambodian border. The Combat Infantryman Badge, one of the most cherished awards of ground fighters in World War II and the Korean Conflict, is awarded to members of the US Army who have participated in combat operations and have been under direct hostile fire.
MOC HO A, Vietnam — Captain Larry M. Lewis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ted M. Lewis of Ozona, Texas was recently awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge for his participation in combat operations in Vietnam. Captain Lewis, a member of the US Army’s elite Special Forces, the highly trained guerrilla experts who wear the green beret, is stationed in the Mekong Delta with Detachment B-41, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) approximately 55 miles West of Saigon near the Cambodian border. The Combat Infantryman Badge, one of the most cherished awards of ground fighters in World War II and the Korean Conflict, is awarded to members of the US Army who have participated in combat operations and have been under direct hostile fire.
March 11, 1976
EVERYBODY GOT INTO THE ACT last week and spring was really in the air. The country club golf course was closed for two days and all golfers, large and small got busy with all kinds of tools for shaping up the course for spring and the first tournament of the season coming up the end of this month. Here a group of workers are busy sweeping one of the greens.
EVERYBODY GOT INTO THE ACT last week and spring was really in the air. The country club golf course was closed for two days and all golfers, large and small got busy with all kinds of tools for shaping up the course for spring and the first tournament of the season coming up the end of this month. Here a group of workers are busy sweeping one of the greens.
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