Kroger Manager,).Shuford, Retires~ . i.:ita[eini-i.h Ellis Shuford, co-managern of the Kroger supermarket at Elmwood Plaza, retired Saturday after 37 years with theKroger organization and a p r e d ecessor firm, Consum e r s Sanitary :Coffee But- : BSilW ter Stores.He was man- -ill, $* ager of a Kroger store on MSMkW,Monument shufordSquare for 25years, until the store closedwhen the Plaza supermarketwas opened in 1956.Among those scheduled to be on hand this evening at a retirement dinner at the Eagles Club are L. R. Mus-selman, Kroger vice president in charge of Chicago operations, and Jack Davis, vice president for Wisconsin.Shuford. who will be 65 in April, started his grocery career in 1927 as manager of a Consumer Sanitary Butter Coffee store at 3209 Washington Ave. and transferred to a store at Waukegan, 111.. in 1928, returning to Racine in 1933 to manage the store on Monument Square. He lives at 733 Indiana St.r-idreiPLjI i r1359Fuserpajwil23,Shi9ChoffinHi]calFI’72:SuPathifuiofinaoridr-P-n-ofie,»a-enn-;st