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Show C. Anderson Goes To Convention Clarence Anderson, manager of the local J. C. Penney Company store leaves Sunday for Ogden to attend the annual Spring convention of the organization which will open April 1st at the Hotel Bigelowe. The convention, which is one of fourteen, covering the entire country wil be headed by George T. Mitchell, Department of District Managers, Chairman; Roy H. Ott, Director of Public Relations; F. W. Binzen. Merchandise Mer-chandise Department; and G. E. Mack, District Manager, will also be pvesnt from the home office. The first two days will be devoted to business sessions in the morning and general conferences between store managers and department managers : from the home office in the afternoon. I On Tuesday vening there will be a banquet at the hotel with a short pro-, gram cf inspirational nature followed by the initiation of new. managers into the J. C. Penney Company ranks. A feature of the business sessions in the morning program of the first two days will be talks by stor; managers. Three managers will be selected for each of the fourteen convention points. Following the business jessions, four days will be devoted to Spvin? buying. Special features have been developed in the presentation of ready-to-wear clothing, millinery and other style itms of the general J. C. Penney Company Com-pany lines. Recent developments in the J. C. Penney' Company include the acquisition acquis-ition of 117 stores throughout the mid-West mid-West and West and ti-c opening of 65 new stores in the gener-u expansion program to include 500 new locations during the present calendar year. Other leases are being rapidly completed com-pleted with a heavy progam of Fall store opening already indicated for locations which have recently been leased. j Sales of the J. C. Penney Company for the year just passed, were in excess ex-cess of $176,000,000 according to Air. Anderson and the -moti established for this year is $215,000,000. ! Total number of stores now includ-' includ-' ed in the J. C. Penney Company ranks is 1212 with increases being recorded each month. |