	pope evans per repurchases shares pope evans and robbins inc said it has repurchased common shares from putnam mills corp principals sidney and peter kaplan for dlrs per share it said the purchase price will be applied against the dlrs putnam mills currently owes pope evans for merchandise pope evans has about mln shares outstanding the company also said it has agreed in principle to uire privately held pat fashions industries inc for mln dlrs in cash and notes with financing to come partly from bank borrowings subject to approval by the pope evans board and pat shareholders pat fashions imports apparel from the far east and makes apparel domestically as well in the year ended november pat earned dlrs pretax on sales of mln dlrs reuter 
