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THURSDAY
EDITION
Vol. 18 No. 24
January 6, 1983
BURLES0N3&TAR
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For Mail Delivery
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Working To Free Man
Fort Worth »nd Burleson firemen fight to remove Quevedo’* leg from the auger at
the Burleson Feed Mill Monday evening.
Charles E.C. Wofford, John Crocker, and Charles Whitlock, with other members of
Burleson and Fort Worth Fire Departments, carry Emilio Quevedo from the grain
bln he was trapped In for over an hour. Quevedo is an employee of Burleson Feed
Mill and was Injured when he slipped Into the grain auger.
Glen Kollmeyer
resigns as pastor
REV. GLEN C. KOLLMEYER
Reverend Glen C. Kollmeyer is retir
ing and will preach his farewell sermon
at Charity Lutheran on Jan 16
The congregation is sponsoring a
farewell dinner for Pastor and Mrs
Kollmeyer starting at 5 p.m Jan 9
Kollmeyer, 62, is in his 36th year of
the ministry
He is the first resident pastor of
Charity and came here in the fall of 197R
after the congregation was organized in
1976 During his pastorate the con
gregation has grown to 300 members
During this time 52 adults were con
firmed and 27 juniors The giving has
more than doubled and the congrega
tion decided to go self supporting for
the year 1963 having adopted a budget
of $64,000 The congregation had been
receiving some subsidy from the Texas
District.
In Burleson, Rev. Kollmeyer was a
member of the Burleson Area Chamber
of Commerce, worked with the Kiwanis
Club in endeavoring to organize a
sustaining club, worked with the Meals
on Wheels program and has been an of-
ficer in the Burleson Ministerial
Association for the past three years
During his ministry, Rev. Kollmeyer
has served as first vice-president of the
Texas District, The Lutheran Church
Missouri-Synod, as circuit counselor, as
a member of various boards and com
mittees and has served as a vice presi-
dent of the Oklahoma District when he
was a pastor at Enid for 10 years
Mrs Kollmeyer has been involved
with the music of the church, teaching
Sunday school, working in the Lutheran
Women’s Missionary League, and serv
ing as vice president of the Fort Worth
zone of the LWML.
Rev. and Mrs. Kollmeyer will move
to Enid, Okla. where they have pur-
chased a new home. Kollmeyer will
serve part-time as the visitation pastor
at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Enid.
Mrs Kollmeyer will help take care of
her parents, Mr and Mrs Albert
Meier.
Firemen free
man trapped
in machinery
By TERRY EVANS
A worker at the Burleson Feed Mill
was trapped for over an hour Monday
night inside a grain bin. After being
freed, he was hospitalized with injuries
to his right leg from the bin’s auger
Emilio Quevedo, 42, was evacuated to
Harris Hospital in Fort Worth by the
Careflight helicopter and wJas listed in
stable condition as of Monday night
John Crocker of the Burleson Volunteer
Eire Department said hospital person
nel told him Quevedo had no broken
bones, but underwent surgery to repair
tissue on his foot.
Crocker said they received the call at
4:33 p.m and were on the scene at 4:35
p m. Three fire units and 12 men
responded to the emergency, but were
unsuccessful In theft attempt to ex
tricate Quevedo from the equipment
WE HAD TO CALL Fort Worth
because we don't have a piece of equips
ment called the Jaws of Life,” Crocker
said. Members of both fire departments
used the hydraulic “jaws," crowbars,
and other equipment to separate metal
plates covering the equipment
Quevedo was trapped in.
“The man was evidently working in
the bin and just stepped where he
shouldn’t have stepped,” Crocker said
Quevedo and another man, Miguel
Torres, were working together in the
bin when Quevedo slipped into the
equipment The “horizontal auger” is a
corkscrew-like device that transports
grain from the bin to the mill. The
auger pulled Quevedo’s right leg
through the opening under the wall of
the bin up to his thigh and pinned him
there Torres shouted at another
employee who de-energized the
machine.
The Fort Worth fire units responded
quickly when called, but the rescue
squad itself was sent back unused.
"FORT WORTH WAS out here just a
few minutes after we called them.”
Crocker said. "They sent five units in-
cluding the rescue squad, but rescue
had to come from downtown and got
caught by the rush-hour traffic on 135.
One of their radio reports informed us
their maximum speed was five miles
per hour.”
According to Crocker, Burleson
should receive the "Jaws of Life”
equipment, which is on order, either
this week or next.
Quevedo was conscious throughout
his rescue, but his blood pressure was
extremely low and rescuers feared he
might go into shock before he could be
removed from the bin, said Jimmie D
Young, District Chief of the Fort Worth
Fire Department.
Young’s station received the call at
4:51 p.m. and arrived at the scene about
5 p.m. from station to on the 3300 block
of Hemphill in south Fort Worth.
Retta Coleman, a secretary for the
mill, said Quevedo will stay at Harris
until Friday, but should recover well.
Accidents of this nature and severity
are unusual at the mill, Coleman said
THIS IS THE first major accident
we've ever had since the mill was built
in the ’50s,” Coleman said. "There's
usually no one working in the bin when
it's in operation, but the wheat bran
wasn't falling right so they went in.
Nobody will iw in the bin while the
equipment is derating from now on
and we are considering what safety
equipment we can install The equip-
ment will be shut off if people have to go
into the bin in the future "
Donny Scott
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city council to meet Move oyer Mickey (Mouse & Gilley)
on post office lease
The Burleson City Council will meet in special session at 7:00 tonight (Thurs-
day) to authorise the mayor to sign a lease agreement with the U.8. Postal Ser-
vice for the old pest office Wilding at tM Cofner of Johnson and Renfro streets.
When the city obtains the building, it will be renovated and used as a police
station The area of city hall now being used by the police department will
either be leased out to a non-profit or governmental agency or used by various
city departments needing additional space. '
The city and the postal service have beeimegotigting for the old post office
building for over a month. According to City Manager Mark Sowa, the police
department was in desperate need of more space ahd the old postal fadlitywill
be adequate for police needs for the next five to 10 years.
Eight-year-old Donny Scott wrote a
theme for his class at A.E. Frazier
Elementary School in which he said he
wanted to be a country singer and
travel around the world with a good
country band. Two days later, without
knowledge of his essay, Donny’s
mother, Sherry Reed, took him to an
audition for the Country Kids Show. Out
of 200 hopefuls who auditioned, Doriliy
was one of 28 children chosen to be in
the show, which is slated to become a
regular Saturday morning offering on
one of the major TV networks.
Susie Combs, director of the show and
manager of most of the children in it,
said Donny is one of her best enter-
tainers.
"He's a real good singer and a real
entertainer,” Combs said.
Donny's musical career began with
guest appearances at The River Club on
135 when hejwas five years old, his
mother saidr ».
“He started singing with Bobby
Crown’s band during their Suntfay jam
sessions at the club,” Reed said. "He’d
sigg a couple of songs and they’d pass
the hat tor mm. Then he’d get his drinks
free," she said.
Dorihy’s favorite drink, by the way, is
cherry sprite.
DONNY NOW SINGS with the Trump
Band anytime he wants to, but that will
have to end with his first appearance on
national television as he will lose his
amateur status.
"The production company in Dallas
said we couldn't reveal what network
would air the show," Combs said. "But,
we can tell you to look for it in the
Spring and we start filming Jan. 22.”
The show is in a Mickey-Mouse-Club
..type formal with a country-western
music theme.
"It's a cross between Nashville on the
Road and the Mickle Mouse Club”
Combs said. -*
"The kids are learning they can do
other creative things besides singing
and playing instruments. They build
sets, create and work muppet
characters and even write the show.”
Being members of the show's cast in-
See Country KM P. 12A
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