'JS Journal', October 1964

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• Contents Page
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  C106
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  To Russia with Livestock
  Page 8
  News and Developments
  Page 16
  Two Famous Cheeses
  Page 20
  Good Works . . . by Woods
  Page 23
  Branches?
  Page 24
  From the Hills
  Page 28
  Potato Growing by H. Brown
  Page 30
  Structural...

• To Russia with Livestock
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  To Moscow
  with
  Livestock
  In preparation for the recent exhibition of British
  Livestock and Agricultural Equipment in Moscow, a
  Russian buying delegation visited Britain to select
  and purchase livestock of various...

• News and Developments
  08

  News and Developments
  Pictures on these two pages are from Coventry where
  work is well advanced on the new self-service branch
  we are building there. Top right is taken from inside
  our busy service branch looking across at the...

• Basingstoke Welcome for JS Family
  15

  Basingstoke Welcome for JS Family
  The 1000th new family to be housed by
  Basingstoke's Housing Department was Mr and
  Mrs Alfred Powell and their son and daughter,
  Martin and Teresa. Mr Powell is a trainee
  foreman at...

• Golden Wedding -Congratulations!
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  Golden Wedding -Congratulations!
  Our best wishes to Mr and Mrs F. Prior who
  celebrated their Golden Wedding on 2nd August this
  vear. The photograph was taken on that date.

• Long Service at Southbourne
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  Long Service at Southbourne
  Some of our staff at Southbourne branch who have put in
  many years of service with the firm. In the back row
  I. to r. Messrs L. Dorey, Head Butcher, 32years,
  C. Summerton, Van Checker, 43years, G....

• Two Famous Cheeses
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  Two Famous Cheeses
  Camembert
  and Brie At the end of the eighteenth century a farmer's
  wife in the hamlet of Camembert made a new
  type of cheese from a secret recipe handed down
  to her by her mother who, in turn, had...

• Good Works . . .
  20

  Good Works... by Woods
  Occasionally - only very occasionally - I get
  a sort of self-righteous feeling on a Sunday
  morning. This usually comes on me on a Sunday
  morning when for some reason or other I decide
  not to play golf...

• Branches ?
  23

  Branches ?
  The clues below are to the names of forty-eight of our branches. You'll find the solutions on
  page s8. One thing that is still puzzling the editor is who sent it into JS Journal. Would
  the author get in touch with us...

• From the Hills
  24

  From the Hills Buying Scotch Lamb for JS Some of the best flavoured lamb in Britain
  comes from the hills in south-western Scotland.
  From this district many thousands of lambs are
  consigned to JS Depots by George Morrison...

• Another experiment in Potato Growing
  28

  Another experiment in Potato Growing
  by
  Harry
  Brown
  Readers remembering my article on growing
  potatoes on the soil surface under black polythene,
  would doubtless have been surprised
  had they visited my garden this summer,...

• Solution to Word Puzzle on page 23 V OH m o N a. T3 $-1 o £ o -t-J a o • I—1 lut o c/3
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  Stratford
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  Dorking
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  Marylebone
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  Ashford
  Maidstone
  Kentish Town
  Morden
  Westbourne
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• Structural Meals for Our Man in Space
  30

  In case you haven't heard, the savants concerned
  with putting an American man on the
  moon, have solved the problem of his rations
  for the two-way trip. They have come up with
  Edible Structural Material (ESM), a...

• Veterans' Outing
  31

  Veterans' Outing
  With the Heme Bay outing of 25th August theJS
  Veterans' Section brought to a close their 1964 season
  of day trips. It was a very happy friendly occasion for
  some 400 JS people and as seems almost always to...

• Movements and Promotions
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  Movements and Promotions
  Managers
  G. ARMSTRONG
  D. BILLINGS
  from Collier Row
  to 40/44 Walthamstow
  from self-service training
  to Marylebone
  from Marylebone
  to Slough
  from self-service training
  to Southbourne
  Promoted to...

• Retirements
  33

  Retirements
  We send our best wishes to the following colleagues who have
  just retired.
  F. Cameron joined the firm in August 1924
  at St Albans and moved to Luton two years later. In
  1936 he moved to Boscombe and...

• Obituaries
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  Obituaries We regret to record the death of the following colleagues and send our deepest sympathy to all relatives S. Andrews, who was engaged on 26th November
  1912 as a salesman at 193 Catford. He was absent on
  National...

• Whatsit?
  35

  Whatsit No 6 Solution in our next issue
  Whatsit in our last issue was an enlargement
  of the tiny hare in the corner of the Lea &
  Perrins Worcestershire sauce label.

• Clacton October 16/17/18/19
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  If you have a talent bring it to
  the party at Clacton
  October 16/17/18/19
  There's a competition with prizes