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Show PENNEY MANAGER TO ANNUAL MEET I. H. Pool, manager of the Milford J. C. Penney company store, left late last week for Ogden to attend the annual spring convention of the organization or-ganization which opened April 1st at the Hotel Bieglow. The convention, which is one of fourteen, covering the entire country is headed by George T. Mitchell, de-1 oartment of district managers, chairman; chair-man; Roy H. Ott, director of public relations; F. W. Binzen, merchandise department, and G. E. Mack, district manager, also i9 present from the home office. The first two days are being devoted de-voted to business sessions in the morning and general conferences between be-tween store managers and department depart-ment managers from the home office of-fice in the afternoon. On Tuesday evening there was a banquet at the hotel with a short ,-rograrrt of inspirational nature fol-owed fol-owed by the initiation of new manages man-ages into the J. C. Penney company ranks. A feature of the business sessions in the morning program of the first two days were talks by store mana-rers. mana-rers. These managers were selected for each of the fourteen convention loints. Following the business sessions, four days will be devoted to spring buying. Special features have been developed in the presentation of i-eady-to-wear clothing, millinery and other style items of the jfeneral J. C. Penney company lines. Recent developments in the J. C. Penney company include the acquisition acquisi-tion of 117 stores throughout the midwest mid-west and west and the opening of G5 new stores in the general expansion program to include 500 new locations during the present calendar year. Total number of stores now included includ-ed in the J. C. Penney company ranks is 1212 with increases being recorded each month. 0 |
