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LAST MEAL—Fred Shrum sits at counter of his cafe.Cafe Veteran Fly In ForCalls It QuitsBreakfastFred Shrum, who has been dishing up dinners and jerking java for 22 years in the same spot at 11 East Sherman, closed his doorsSaturday night for good.Shrom’s Cafe is going out of business. It lost its quarters and Shrum, at 64, decided this would be as good a time as any to begin taking it easy.Restaurant man Shrum came to town in 1921, ran the Oxford Cafeon Main from then until the fallof 1928. For a number of yearshe worked in other cafes, in 1934bought the place he finally closedSaturday.“You get to know a lot of people,” Shrum mused Saturday over a cup of coffee. “Some of them have been with us for almost the whole 22 years.”Shrum and his wife, 628 East 5th, have both been familiar figures in' the r.estaurant. For 18 years their daughter, Mrs. Duane Crain, 'helped out, too.The restaurant space is to become new quarters for a clothing firm’s tailoring shop.Still undecided is what Shrum will do with his restaurant fixtures. He thought, he said Saturday, he might sell them cheap to someone who wants to open a new restaurant with them — and carry on an old tradition.Private plane flyers — possibly 60 or 100, sponsors hope — will fly in for breakfast Sunday at the Municipal Airport.Invitations have been extended to all pleasure flyers and circulated largely at Valley Center and Ken-Mar airports in the Wichita area. Howard Fyler, airport Steak House restaurant operator who organized the fly-in, said planes will start arriving around 9 a. m., be here by 10:30 a. m.A drill team from the Civil Air Patrol here and a girls’ drill team from the Wichita CAP will stage a demonstration for the group about 11 a. m., and takeoffs will start soon afterward.Some new planes may be on display for the air-minded breakfast-ers to inspect while they’re on the ground.Hess Granted ParoleMerritt C. Hess, 321 East B, convicted in District Court last month on drunk driving charges after an appeal to the court from a Police Court conviction, Saturday was released on parole.He had served 26 days on a 90-days sentence and had paid his $100 fine.
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Hutchinson News Herald
Hutchinson, Kansas, US
Sun, Mar 04, 1956
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