Show Manager of s Transferred To Tooele Eight years W. Hal Thorpe arrived in Bountiful to assume the management of Store Number Twenty in the vast J. C. Penney chain of department This Thorpe will leave for Tooele to take the post of manager in that segment of the Penney's THORPE joined the Penney's operation some 23 years ago as a trainee in the Salt Lake City From that he journeyed to as and from there to the of the Layton just prior to taking the post in While manager of the local Thorpe has seen and insured a tremendous growth in the Bountiful Penney's Working against many not the least of which was limited store THORPE and his associates Store Twenty have realized an efficient and profitable operation for the store which is a part of a vast department store chain that now numbers over 1600 stores in the United States and foreign Among the 27 new J. C. Penney's scheduled to open in is store now being built at Page's Lane on the THIS which is set to open in late January or early will replace the Bountiful and Layton J. C. Penney On Saturday a breakfast honoring Thorpe and nine associates of long-tenure in the Bountiful store was held at the of the A. H. West A NEW award program been initiated by the Penney's chain to show appreciation to employees of long service to the Awards are being made at service levels of fifteen and twenty-five years of service completed as of December The service awards are jewelry items emblematic of the Golden Rule which has been a motto of the J. C. Penney Company since its inception in THE-SMALL golden rule replicas bear one to golden sapphires on the lesser awards or five faceted cut diamonds on the greater tenure associates were able to select their award At the breakfast awards were made to Margaret Van Ry Geral-dine Egnew Maurine Clee Rampton Gladys Hutchinson Peggie Bernice By water HAL THORPE and Beverly Jensen IN appreciation to and as a remembrance from his a wrist watch was presented to him at the A short program was included in the breakfast events to further honor the Attending the in addition to the award were Leona Maudella Roberta Leanore Rodger Robert Richard Lisa Emma Shirley Davis and Emily SPECIAL guests were former employees under Thorpe in the Bountiful Craig Edith Helen Carol Velma Hammond and Myra Plans for the Thorpe family's move to Tooele have not been so in the his wife Ruby and their five children are remaining at their Bountiful residence at East 1950 |