'JS Journal', September 1974

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• Contents Page
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  Page 2
  Stranded! Girl tells of holiday ordeal
  Page 2
  Steel shoes are all the rage
  Page 4
  What's under the beef mountain? - Euroflation
  Page 8
  Training pays off for the champion hurdler

• Sugar: Mr JD ticks off the Government but the shortage still goes on
  01

  Sugar: Mr JD ticks off the Government but
  the shortage still goes on The sugar shortage goes into
  another week with few signs
  that the supply position is
  going to improve.
  This is in spite of statements
  by the...

• Lamb sales rocket
  02

  Lamb sales rocket
  A JS New Zealand lamb
  promotion, held in the first two
  weeks of August, was a great
  success with a massive increase
  in sales.
  Says manager of the fresh
  meat trading department, Ron
  Topp, 'We virtually...

• Mr JD goes on TV to defend large stores
  02

  Mr JD goes on TV to defend large stores In an interview on Anglia
  Television, John Sainsbury,
  chairman of JS, discussed the
  development of British
  grocery chain stores. The
  26-minute talk, screened on
  July 29, was one of a...

• Steel shoes are all the rage after depot campaign
  02

  Steel shoes are all the rage after depot campaign During the last month a
  'safeguard your feet' campaign
  has been in full swing
  at the depots, and, at the same
  time the allowance for protective
  footwear has doubled.
  Branch...

• Stranded! Canteen girl tells of her ordeal on holiday isle
  02

  Stranded! Canteen girl tells of her
  ordeal on holiday isle Makarios is dead. False news
  that heralded 10 days of
  terror for Pat Maguire and
  her family, who were holidaying
  in Cyprus when they
  suddenly found themselves
  in...

• Depot cheque gives the kids a head start in their exams
  03

  Depot cheque gives the kids a head start in their exams Thanks to a company grant
  via Buntingford depot, 118
  pupils from the Ward
  Freeman school at Buntingford
  have been helped to
  study at first hand various
  aspects of the...

• Fourth generation Bill, last of the line, calls it a day
  03

  Fourth generation Bill, last of the line, calls it a day Bill Beckham and the chairman
  both share something in
  common. They are both the
  fourth generation of their
  families to work for JS.
  But Bill is the last of the
  Beckham...

• New pot stirs them up in the yogurt world
  03

  New pot stirs them up in the yogurt world James Bond likes his martini
  shaken but not stirred. JS
  yogurt-eaters can now be
  equally discerning but for
  them the choice is stirred
  or set curd.
  Recently a new large
  size stirred...

• Supermarket site lent out as a refuge
  03

  Supermarket site lent out as a refuge Two houses, part of a JS
  development site in West
  Ealing, have been lent to
  Acton Women's Aid as shelter
  for women who have been
  ill-treated by their husbands
  and have nowhere else to...

• Take the lid off the beef mountain and you find - Euroflation
  04

  Take the lid off the beef mountain and you find - Euroflation For generations the British have enjoyed cheap food.
  But at whose expense has this been? The farmer? Or is it
  the rest of us, as taxpayers, who eventually foot the...

• Come landlord, fill the flowing bowl!
  06

  Come landlord, fill the flowing bowl!
  He's a jolly sort of gent, ruddy faced, wears sleeve suspenders and has a booming
  voice. He can often match your joke with one better and will be seen mopping up the
  counter in front of him...

• Appointments
  07

  Appointments
  R Dart, formerly manager
  of Bexhill service branch,
  has been appointed deputy
  manager of the new Hastings
  branch.
  D Webb, formerly manager
  of Portsmouth, has been
  appointed manager of
  Bitterne.
  E Puttkk,...

• Letters: Old smokies
  07

  Letters: Old smokies From Mrs V Thresher,
  Basingstoke depot:
  Could we please have an
  exchange of polite opinions
  via the JS Journal letter
  column on poor ventilation
  and the permitting of
  smoking in JS offices?
  In a...

• Long service
  07

  Long service
  Wecongratulate the following
  employees on receiving long service awards.
  40 years:
  LW Chumbley (Upminster)
  25 years:
  G McGinnis (Halesowen)
  G Alvin (Arnold)
  RW Glazier (Blackfriars)
  F Cowey (Chesham)
  CE...

• News in brief
  07

  News in brief This column keeps on
  mentioning JS in a religious
  context. Last month a convent
  referred to us as
  'SaintsburyY. Now we hear
  of a young lad in Norwich,
  aged 2^ years, who tacks
  a 'God bless Sainsburys' on
  to...

• Obituary
  07

  Obituary
  Mrs Julia Childs, a
  part-time display assistant
  at the Guildford branch
  died on August 10. She had
  been with the company for
  16 years.

• Retirements
  07

  Retirements
  Mrs D o r i s ' L i d d y *
  Liddiard retired in June as a
  part-time supply assistant at
  Wembley, after a total of
  27 years with JS. Her first
  job was weighing out the
  sugar 'ration'. The job was only meant to be...

• The 'Journal' survey
  07

  The 'Journal' survey From Peter Snow, director,
  branch operations division:
  May I suggest you do not
  make the mistake of reading
  what you want to read in the
  results of the survey carried
  out throughout the company
  on the...

• Gruelling training pays off handsomely for Tony the champion hurdler
  08

  Gruelling training pays off handsomely
  for Tony the champion hurdler Seventeen-year-old Tony
  James, a junior tradesman in
  the provisions department at
  Wolverhampton and a champion
  hurdler to boot, has
  won himself a place in...

• Holiday firm's crash takes its toll of JS people
  08

  Holiday firm's crash takes its toll of JS people The Court Line crash has
  caught a number of JS people
  who booked holidays through
  its Clarksons and Horizon
  travel companies on the hop.
  Many people found their
  holiday...