'JS Journal', Christmas 1973

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• A clown for Christmas!
  01

  A clown for Christmas! Young Scott Barrett clowns around
  with his grandpa, Buntingford Driver Bill Barrett at the
  depot's children's Christmas party on December 8.
  Needless to say, everyone had a good time. More party
  pictures on...

• Contents Page
  01

  Christmas 1973 Equality is the keynote
  at Buntingford
  page 2
  Christmas survival kit
  page 4
  Something prickly growing
  at Brighton
  page 7
  Wine competition
  winners and answers
  page 8

• Feltham gets an extended birthday gift
  01

  Feltham gets an extended birthday gift Feltham began trading with
  an extra 929 square metres
  (10,000 square feet) of sales
  area on November 27 - just
  two days short of its seventh
  birthday. When the store
  opened in 1966 the sales...

• Food firms gain exemption from power crisis laws and so for JS it's business as usual
  01

  Food firms gain exemption from power crisis laws
  and so for JS it's business as usual The worsening economic situation and the various crises which
  are piling the pressure on businesses - the electricity, coal,
  petrol, oil,...

• More responsibility for managers in area switch-round
  01

  More responsibility
  for managers in
  area switch-round Advisory rather than supervisory
  - that's the role of the
  five teams of area specialists
  who officially took up their
  newly created jobs on
  December 3.
  The changing...

• Equality is the keynote in Buntingford's shiny new restaurant
  02

  Equality is the keynote in Buntingford's shiny
  new restaurant A bold step forward is how
  the new staff restaurant at
  Buntingford depot has been
  described. It does away with
  segregated dining rooms so
  now all staff, from...

• Stratford is the scene of a novel competition prize
  02

  Stratford is the scene of a novel competition prize
  The new Stratford branch's
  local newspaper, 'The
  Express', has been encouraging
  its readers to run amok
  in the store and take whatever
  they like from the
  shelves without paying...

• The man from bacon buying stars in his own TV show
  02

  The man from bacon buying stars in his own TV show There's more to being on
  television than meets the eye,
  as 24-year-old Ian Merton
  discovered when he was
  chosen to feature in a BBC
  educational programme in
  the 'A job worth...

• Development gets a 'priority one' from David
  03

  Development gets a
  'priority one' from
  David Minced beef roast and
  'unsupported' lamb chops
  may sound unlikely bedfellows
  but in fact they are
  both projects being progressed
  through a new department
  at the Basingstoke
  depot. The...

• JS gets in on the act and goes on the air
  03

  JS gets in on the act and
  goes on the air 'Right let's take it from the
  top'.
  Radio producer Charmaine
  Slade leans forward on the
  console and looks at the
  actors in the glassed-in
  recording booth while the
  technician starts the...

• Sainsbury art collection is created for East Anglia University
  03

  Sainsbury art collection is created for East Anglia University A priceless art collection
  has been given by Sir Robert
  (Mr RJ) and Lady Sainsbury
  to the University of East
  Anglia together with an endowment
  of £3 million...

• Jobbo
  04

  Just suppose, we mused one day while
  we were pondering the current economic
  situation, just suppose things get worse. No
  petrol. No trains. No going over to Uncle
  Fred and Auntie Win on Boxing Day.
  No food in the shops, power...

• Puzzles from the past
  04

  Two clerks, A and B, are engaged, A
  at a salary commencing at the rate of £100
  a year with a rise of £20 every year, B at
  a salary commencing at the same rate
  of £100 a year with a rise of £5 every
  half-year, in each case...

• Who told you to wear that then?
  04

  MANAGER AND STAFF
  DAILY BULLETIN 299/73
  BRANCH TRADING OFFICE EX 2363
  STAMFORD HOUSE
  Friday 21st December, 1973
  Seasonal Protective Clothing
  White beards and eyebrows will be worn
  during this week's trading. Rhyming
  hygiene poster...

• What's cooking?
  05

  JS Journal helps you get over
  the Christmas beanfeast
  Not as drastic as its name
  might suggest is a prune
  dessert devised by home economist
  23-year-old Clare
  Taylor. Her job is thinking
  up imaginative ways of using
  JS products....

• Appointments
  06

  Appointments
  R Palser, formerly deputy
  manager at Wallington, has
  been appointed manager at
  68 Croydon.
  R Miles, formerly deputy
  manager at Woolwich, has
  been appointed manager at
  Sutton.
  R M Stansfield has been
  appointed section...

• Badminton imperialists fail to beat the bank
  06

  Badminton imperialists fail to beat the bank
  Jolly shuttlecocks! The Bromley badminton team, from the
  left, captain Rick Beazley, Dorothy Paterson, Stuart Letham,
  Dave Norcott, Liz Bennett and Dot Millward, before their
  match...

• Letters: Did we fail at Bletchley?
  06

  Letters: Did we fail at Bletchley? From Mr David Solomon,
  equipment buyer, Clapham.
  A splendid new branch has
  just opened at Bletchley.
  Within three hours of the
  opening, emergency instructions
  were issued to put in an
  additional...

• Long service
  06

  Long service
  Congratulations to the
  following employees on
  on receiving 25 years service
  awards:
  A D Meddings (Rye Lane);
  N Drewell (Kentish Town);
  F Eyre (Streatham); D P
  Hedges (Blackfriars); R C
  Osborne (Basingstoke depot);
  A W...

• News in brief
  06

  News in brief It's Minis and Marinas for
  JS directors on the move
  during the petrol shortage.
  The Rolls and Rovers, say
  their chauffeurs, have been
  'put to rest' at Clapham
  until the crisis is over.
  On the bright side,...

• Obituary
  06

  Obituary
  D Hogan, a clerk in supply
  control at Blackfriars died
  on November 2.

• Retirements
  06

  Retirements
  T Hodgson a senior skilled
  tradesman at Hastings retires
  on December 29 after 44
  years' service. F G Fry works engineer at
  Buntingford depot retired on
  October 31 after 42 years
  service.
  R Gardner reserve manager
  at...

• Frada's weekly cake helps the hungry
  07

  Frada's weekly cake helps the hungry Secretary Frada Toms
  bakes coffee walnut cakes
  to help feed the hungry in
  Ethiopia. But unlike Marie
  Antoinette and her 'let them
  eat cake' answer to the
  needy, Frada sells her cakes
  to...

• New display system makes meat selection easier
  07

  New display system makes meat selection easier A new look in meat display
  will be going into JS branches.
  Known as the 'display by
  cooking method' it is a complete
  change from the present
  system of displaying meats by
  countries of...

• There's something prickly growing down in Brighton!
  07

  There's something prickly growing down in Brighton! If you like plants and have
  a bent for collecting - then be
  warned. Horticultural assistant
  Maureen Holt started
  collecting cacti and now has
  over 1500 specimens at her
  home in...

• JS Journal wine competition: Winners, limericks and . . . . . the answers
  08

  JS Journal wine competition:
  Winners, limericks and Nearly 100 people sent in entries for the JS Journal Christmas
  wine competition, a number which exceeded our expectations
  in view of the difficulty of the competition. Some...

• Party revellers push the boat out at Ilford, Birmingham and Streatham
  08

  Party revellers push the boat out at Ilford, Birmingham and Streatham The thing about parties is that they all look the same. But just
  for the record the pictures above and left were taken at Ilford's
  dance; that below shows what...