'JS Journal', January 1961

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• Basildon's New Branch
  02

  Innovation in Basildon New Town J.S. opened its 31st self-service branch at Basildon,
  Essex, on November 8th. In it the firm has installed its
  first 100 per cent self-service fresh meat department, a
  step taken only after long...

• Foot-and-Mouth Disease
  08

  Foot-and-mouth
  di Mr. F. W. Salisbury,
  Assistant General Manager of J.S.,
  writes about the current epidemic
  of this disease of livestock. Comparative figures for outbreaks
  of foot-and-mouth disease
  during the epidemic of...

• BIBRA—a new organisation
  09

  BIBRA—a new organisation
  The centenary year of the first Act of the Prevention
  of the Adulteration of Food and Drink was
  appropriately enough the year in whiclrBritain set
  up a new research body to examine the-effects...

• J.S. Staff Fund for Seriously Crippled Boys
  09

  J.S. Staff Fund for Seriously Crippled Boys
  C H R I S T M A S D R A W
  In opening the prize draw at Blackfriars Canteen,
  Mr. Timothy Sainsbury set the seal on a magnificent
  effort by everybody concerned. Briefly, all
  tickets...

• Try a Lake
  10

  Crummock Water, in Cumberland, one of the loveliest of English lakes.
  Try a Lake
  When you want to go to the seaside and your wife wants to be in the depths of the country
  there's nothing like a nice lake to give you the best of...

• Pictures in the Pavement
  14

  About three thousand years ago someone in Crete had the bright idea of
  making a floor out of fiat waterworn pebbles embedded in cement. Later on
  another Cretan thought it would be nice to set out the pebbles in patterns
  and in...

• Look to! Treble's Going
  19

  For centuries these words, called by the ringer of
  the treble bell (the lightest and highest pitched of
  the peal), have set the bells ringing in English
  church towers. In England church bells are rung in
  a way that is unique...

• Anniversaries
  20

  Gloucester Road
  Apex Corner
  Coventry
  Derby
  Kettering
  Leicester
  Marble Arch
  Northampton
  North Cheam
  Nottingham
  Seaford
  Walsall J.S. has only one Golden Jubilee this year. It is
  of our Gloucester Road branch which was...

• Down Memory Lane
  21

  Down Memory Lane
  The photograph above came to Mr. Alan Sainsbury
  from Mr. F. Munns who tells us that it was taken in
  1910 and shows five members of the staff at North
  Finchley branch. The tall one with fair hair standing
  at...

• Personnel Manager's Office
  22

  Communications
  Personnel Manager's Office
  Seventh in a series
  about people at the other end of the telephone. Mr. V. J . L o n n o n is Personal
  Assistant to Mr. E. A. Farrell,J.S.
  Personnel Manager. Every day a
  multitude of...

• Social Round
  23

  Gerrards Cross Dine and Dance
  Pictures from Gerrards Cross annual event at the Bell House
  Hotel, Beaconsfield, on November 1st. Top, a table of
  visitors from Greenford branch; below, Mr. J. Sheppard,
  Mr. and Mrs. G. W....

• Disguise ?
  25

  Disguise ?
  The improbable events taking place down
  stage, left, were part of the Stamford
  Players version of "Doctor in the House"
  at Christchurch Hall, Blackfriars, in late
  November. Terry Parkinson (in the middle
  of the...

• Oxted Girls
  25

  Oxted Girls
  Here's the Oxted netball team who came to
  Dulwich on September 10th to play in the
  competition. If the photograph hadn't gone
  astray we'd have had it in with the others, but
  then we wouldn't have had it to cheer...

• ? What Competition
  25

  ? What Competition
  Our photographic Christmas quiz was
  won by Mr. M. W. Mooney, of
  J.S. Chemical Laboratory, to whom is
  awarded the first prize of £10 in Premium
  Bonds. Good luck in the draw !
  Correct Answers are:
  1. Motif...

• Congratulations
  26

  Congratulations
  Congratulations to Miss S. Moss of Bournemouth
  branch and Mr. W. Docherty of Westbourne branch,
  who were married on August 20th, 1960.

• Impressions
  26

  Impressions
  Miss A. M. Ogbaru, a Nigerian law student at
  Middle Temple, who worked in the Sales Office at Blackfriars
  during last summer.
  I have worked in a few firms during my summer
  holidays but my impression about t h em...

• Movements and Promotions
  26

  Movements and Promotions
  To A s s i s t a n t M a n a g e r
  L. J. BIRD 50 Goodmayes
  R. K. FOORD Grant Hill
  D. w. SILVERMAN Seven Kings
  A s s i s t a n t Manager
  B. w. GOODSWEN from Brent Street to
  P. A. to Mr. Dyer

• Obituaries
  26

  Obituaries
  Mr. A. E. Holiday Mr. R. Wanmer
  A. E. H o l i d a y , who died suddenly on December 9th,
  when he was preparing to go on convalescence following
  an operation. He joined the staff of the warehouse in
  1929, and after...

• Red-Riding-Hood
  27

  The stirring tale opposite was told on a set of coloured postcards
  distributed by the firm in the years before the first world war. They
  came to us from a customer who had preserved them for many years. Little Red Riding...

• Contents Page
  28

  SERIES No. A 76
  Page 2
  Basildon's New Branch
  Page 8
  Foot-and-Mouth Disease.
  Page 10
  Try a Lake
  Page 14
  Pictures in the Pavement
  Page 19
  Look to! Treble's Going
  Page 20
  Anniversaries
  Page 22
  Personnel Manager's Office
  Page...

• J.S. Win National Poultry Show Awards
  28

  J.S. Win National Poultry Show Awards
  The silver cup on the left was won by
  J.S. at the National Poultry Show,
  Olympia, last December. The firm did
  well at the show, carrying off the cup,
  which was presented by the...