Ozona History

April 16, 1936
When the present school term ends, the Live Oak school, on the western edge of Crockett County, will be discontinued permanently, it was decided by the school board in session Saturday night. Only two pupils of school age were enrolled in the Live Oak school during the present year, school officials said, and the expense of maintaining the school was so great and the benefits so small that decision was reached to provide transfer of these pupils to another school. One other pupil, below school age, attending the school this year. Mrs. T. Perisher is teacher this year at Live Oak. The school has been maintained for more than ten years. The largest enrollment ever registered there was twenty pupils. This enrollment record was established when road workers and pipe line crews were located in the vicinity several years ago.

April 18, 1946
In order that the people might be apprised of details of any community advancement project that may be under consideration, the Community Council, meeting in its second session at the court house last Monday evening, decided that the people would be given opportunity to discuss and know the details of any project by means of mass meetings Whenever any matter under consideration by the Council has reached such point that it is ready for consideration by the people, a mass meeting is to be called for thorough discussion and airing, the Council announced, thus functioning solely as a leadership group in assembling information, directing a line of action and placing the matter before the town for ultimate consideration and action.
Details of organization are still under discussion by the Council, final adoption of a set of by-laws presented at the Monday night meeting by a committee being positioned until a later meeting. Certain changes and amendments in the by-laws suggested in the discussion will be incorporated in a redraft of the document. The Council meets the first and third Monday evenings each month in the Commissioners room at the courthouse. The public is cordially invited to these meetings and to offer any suggestions or make any requests of the Council either in person or by letter.

April 12, 1956
The Ozona High School girls’ volleyball team will meet the winners of the eastern half of the district, Junction, at 3:30 Friday afternoon for the district title. The championship game will be played on neutral Sonora's gym court. The Ozona girls slaughtered an impotent Eldorado team in Ozona Tuesday afternoon in coping two games 28 to 2 and 30 to 9. Tony Ortiz scored on 12 straight serves in the first game to ice the contest away almost before it got started and reserves placed most of the last game and still won with ease. 

April 14, 1966
Carmen Childress, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Childress, will represent Ozona in the Miss Mohair Contest to be held at Brownwood, April 29. Carmen, sponsored by the Ozona Lions Club, is a graduate of Ozona High School and a freshman student at Texas Tech, in Lubbock. Her major is home economics. She is a member of the Rodeo Club and Pi Beta Phi sorority.

April 15, 1976
BICENTENNIAL QUILT being tacked by Mrs. Walter Spiller's second grade was shown Tuesday at the Arts & Crafts show, sponsored by the Ozona Womans Forum at the Granny Miller Hall. Mrs. Suzannah Machada instructed the children in the work. The tremendous undertaking by the children was a true Bicentennial project and reminiscent of an old-fashioned quilting bee.