LOS ANGELES COUNTY - News from Feb. 15, 1987

J. Janvier (Jan) Wetzel, executive vice president-marketing and sales promotion at the Broadway, will retire Feb. 23, and his duties will be assumed by William D. McDonald Jr., who joins the department store chain as senior vice president.

Wetzel, who worked for the Los Angeles-based Broadway stores for 31 years and had been in the marketing post since 1981, will continue as a consultant.

McDonald became president of Electronistore Services, a Chicago-based subsidiary of R. R. Donnelley & Sons, in 1983, after holding posts at Thom McAn Shoe Co. and Woodward & Lothrop, a Washington-based department store.