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Show Penney Company In New Departure The J. C. Penney Company, organization organ-ization of 8S5 department stores, will open a permanent employment office in the Russ Buiding, San Francisco, jn Jannry 2, 1?28. William H. Dayton, formerly of the 'company's New York employment office, of-fice, is now enroute to California to assume charge of the Pacific Coast office which will handle employment in the territory West of and including includ-ing Denver. Mr. Dayton will interview applicants and contract personally with store managers in their employment problems. prob-lems. He is familiar with the western territory, having been for six years connectced with A. T. Lewis Si Sons, department store, of Denver. During this period he acted as Merchandise Manager for four years and as General Gen-eral Superintendent in charge of employment em-ployment and personnel for four ears. Tit PacL'ic Toast re?.l estate division div-ision of the J. C. Penney Company will also have offices in the Russ building in San Francisco. The opening of a San Francisco office of-fice is in line with the company's expansion ex-pansion and activity in the West this year. Two important purchases of western department store chains were made during the year. The recent purchase of the Golden Rule group added to the J. C. Penney company organization twenty stores in Wyoming. Wyom-ing. Utah, Nevada, Montana, Nebraska Neb-raska and California. The purchase of the Jones chain involved fifty-four stores located in Minnesota, Montana, North and South Dakota, Iowa and Wisconsin took place earlier in the year. |