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Show COAST TO FETE PENNEY MANAGERS W. W. Sttverjon, manager of J. C. Penney company department depart-ment store, will leave here March 3rd to attend the company's Golden Jubilee convention being held in San Francisco, Calif., from March 5 to 8th. "This year marks our 50th Anniversary An-niversary of serving the American Ameri-can people", Mr. Stevenson said, "and our convention has been built around that theme. Naturally Natur-ally we are proud of our past our company started as a single, tiny store in 1902 and has grown to be the biggest of its kind in the world. "But frankly we are looking to the future, rather than the past. We want to continue serving serv-ing the American people the best we know how in the next 50 years and that's what we are going to talk about at our convention". con-vention". He added: "We have built a great business busi-ness following a simple principle the Golden Rule. We believe in it and we are going to take the opportunity, at the convention, conven-tion, to reaffirm and rededicate ourselves to this great principle in 1952 and the years ahead". J. C. Penney, founder of the company and its board chairman today, will make the keynote address at the two-day meeting. The subject of his talk will be "Do It Better". Principal convention addres9 will be given by A. W. Hughes, president of J. C. Penney company, com-pany, on the topic, "A Look Ahead". Penney conventions will be held during February and Marc3 in Atlantic City, Chicago and San Francisco, with a total of six conventions in the three cities. More than 3,000 Penney managers, manag-ers, their wives and Central office of-fice associates are expected to attend at-tend the six meetings. Guest speakers who will address ad-dress the conventions include United States Senator Karl E. Mundt of South Dakota; United States Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois; Dr. J. E. Wallace Wal-lace Sterling, president of Stanford Stan-ford University, Stanford, Calif.; Dr. Tully C. Knowles, chancellor, College of Pacific, Stockton, Cal. Palmer Hoyt, publisher, the Denver Den-ver Post, and John Hancock, partner, Lehman Brothers, board chairman, Lever Brothers. |