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Show LOCAL PENNEY MANAGER TO L. A. CONVENTION H. C. Thomas, manager of the J. C. Penney Co. store in St. George, will leave Saturday to attend at-tend the annual spring convention of that organization to be held at Los Angeles. Owing to the new conditions in the department store field which have been brought about by drastic reductions in commodity prices, the convention, which is usually held in April, has been moved ahead to give all J. C. Penney Co. store managers an opportunity to get full advantages of the new merchandising and price policies of the company. Price reductions running as high as forty per cent in many staple lines of merchandise handled by the organization, have already been announced and further announcements announce-ments regarding new price and quality standards may be expected according to Mr. Thomas. Eight general convention points have been selected for the spring meetings, covering all parts of the country, the-eastern tour being under un-der the direction of A. W. Hughes, assistant to Earl C. Sams, president presi-dent of the Penney organization, and the western tour under the direction of George Mitchell of the personnel division of the New York office. J. C. Penney, founder of the J. C. Penney Co., will make the trip on the western schedule, and Lew V. Day, vice-president and director direc-tor of personnel will make the eastern trip. A notable feature of the conventions con-ventions will be the elimination o! the usual buying sessions and the substitution of additional programs devoted to selling methods and service standards. Nearly fifteen hundred managers will attend the convention session' which will cover more than 60 per cent of the retail trade area of the United States. |