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Show 1 Penney Company Managers At Frisco Peeling E. J. Nixon, manager of J. C. Penney Company department store, will leave here March 4 to attend the Company's Golden Jubilee convention being held in San Francisco from March 5 to 8. "This year marks our 50th Anniversary of serving the American people," Mr. Nixon said, "and our convention uas been built around that theme. "Naturally we are proud of our past our Company started as a single, tiny store in 1902 and has grown to be the big'gest of its kind in the world. "We have built a great business busi-ness following a simple principle the Golden Rule. We believe in it and we are going to take i the opportunity, at the convention, conven-tion, to reaffirm and rededicatc ourselves to this great principle in 1952 and the years ahead," Mr. Nixon said. J. C. Penney, founder of the Company and its board chairman chair-man today, will make the keynote key-note address at the two-day meeting. The subject of his talk will be "Do It Better." Principal convention address will be given by A. W. Hughes, president of J. C. Penney Company, Com-pany, on the topic, "A Look Ahead." Penney conventions will be held during February and March in Atlantic City, Chicago and San Francisco, with a total of six conventions in the three cities. More than 3,000 Penney managers, their wives "and central cen-tral office associates are expected expect-ed toattend the six meetings. Guest speakers who will address ad-dress the conventions include United States Senator Karl E. Mundt of South Dakota; United States Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois; Dr. J. E. Wallace Sterling, president of Stanford University, Palo Alto. Calif.; Dr. Tully C. Knowles. chancellor, College of Pacific, Stockton. Calif.; Palmer Hoyt. publisher, the Denver Post; and John Hancock, partner, Lehman Leh-man Brothers, board chairman. Lever Brothers. |