'JS Journal', April 1975

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• Drury Lane branch closes
  01

  Sadness, regret, memories, appeals and goodbyes as . . .
  Drury Lane branch closes PREDICTIONS of protest marches and sit-ins did not
  come true and Salisbury's in Drury Lane closed quietly
  and without fuss on April 4.
  The first...

• Last goodbyes
  01

  Last goodbyes
  Eileen O'SuIlivan takes a last photograph of the staff. GREAT REGRET was
  expressed by both customers
  and staff in the
  days leading up to JS's
  final departure from the
  street where the company
  was born.
  Most...

• THE LAST CUSTOMER
  01

  Sylvia Hankin says farewell to Drury Lane and Owen Keen, watched by Allan Redford.
  THE LAST CUSTOMER at JS's Drury Lane branch completed an unusual historical circle
  stretching back to the first day of the company more than a...

• Bedford shines at saving energy
  02

  Bedford shines at saving energy SUMMER IS A COMING in
  with lighter nights and (with
  any luck) warmer weather.
  But it doesn't herald an end
  to the energy campaign, it
  just means that it's that bit
  more difficult to remember...

• Bumper crowds, booze, burglars—East Dulwich has 'em all
  02

  Bumper crowds, booze, burglars
  East Dulwich has 'em all CHAMPAGNE ON ICE —
  both from JS's first combined
  freezer centre and off licence
  which opened at East Dulwich
  on March 25.
  Director Peter Snow did
  the opening...

• Life begins anew for Vi at sixty
  02

  Life begins anew for Vi at sixty RETIREMENT for Vi Powell
  means an exciting and
  exacting new job as clerk to
  the council.
  At 59, Mrs Powell was less
  than a year off the JS retirement
  age for women. But last
  month she left...

• Romance in store
  02

  Romance in store
  THE WEDDING RICE was
  knee deep at JS's Farnham
  branch last month with two
  marriages in one weekend.
  On Saturday March 8,
  assistant grocery manager
  John Bannister married
  Susan Bird, a cashier from...

• Salute for Woolwich
  02

  Salute for Woolwich
  GOODWILL and honest
  endeavour are alive and well
  and living at JS's Woolwich
  branch. A customer was so
  impressed by the way staff
  handled a cash refund for him
  he wrote to a local paper.
  'In these days...

• Stamford Group hits the jackpot
  02

  Stamford Group hits the jackpot THE GOAL HAS BEEN
  REACHED. It took only 10
  months instead of the estimated
  two years for the Stamford
  Group to collect more
  than enough money to buy a
  kidney machine. The £2,000
  has been...

• The winners
  02

  The winners
  THE MEN'S DOUBLES
  final of the JS table tennis
  tournament was at last played
  at Dulwich on March 25, having
  been held over from the
  main tournament earlier in
  the month. (See March issue,
  page two.)
  The result...

• Why be modest...?
  02

  Why be modest...?
  The JS Journal has won a certificate
  of merit in a national
  competition.
  Every year the British
  Association of Industrial
  Editors holds a competition
  to find the house journal of
  the year. The JS...

• A mat finish
  03

  A mat finish
  JS SHOE POLISH works
  wonders with rubber car
  mats! This practical gem was
  spotted in a motoring
  magazine by Alan Hale,
  operation planning, Charlton
  depot.
  Any other ideas for it, asks
  Alan, apart from the...

• Goldfish reach an all time high
  03

  Goldfish reach an all time high A HERON'S LUNCH was
  the fate of William Selley's
  prize goldfish on March 21.
  He went into his house in
  Chingford for lunch that day
  leaving 20 healthy goldfish
  swimming around the pond in
  his...

• JS hatches a new chick
  03

  JS hatches a new chick
  AS A FURTHER STAGE in
  its expansion, Sainsbury-
  Spillers Limited, a JS
  associate company, has
  acquired a chicken processing
  factory and a small chicken
  growing unit — part and parcel
  of Newfarm...

• Lewisham certainly can, can-can
  03

  Lewisham certainly can, can-can
  South of the river down Lewisham way they know how to
  celebrate moving into a new JS super-store. On March 22 staff
  at the new Lewisham branch (opened on March 11) had a
  Saturday night binge...

• No mean feet
  03

  No mean feet
  NEARLY THREE pounds a
  foot and more than five
  pounds a head were raised by
  staff at JS's Arnold branch for
  the National Society for the
  Prevention of Cruelty to
  Children.
  Their sponsored charity
  walk raised a...

• Playing the game Supermarketeers make their first £4 million
  03

  Playing the game Supermarketeers make their first £4 million A CONVINCING VICTORY in the first round of the
  1975 National Management Game was won by Supermarketeers,
  a team from JS. In each round of the game
  teams, each...

• Why Sainsbury's say yes to the Community
  04

  Why Sainsbury's say yes to the Community In June the British people will be voting
  in their first ever referendum. The result
  of that vote is important to JS and other
  companies in the food retailing and
  manufacturing...

• JS veterans take tea and talk over old times
  06

  JS veterans take tea and talk over old times FOURTEEN HUNDRED
  JS veterans made a takeover
  bid for London's plush Royal
  Lancaster hotel on April 8.
  And they succeeded!
  The occasion was the JS
  Veterans Group's 27th
  annual...

• Running, jumping and who's got the ball
  06

  Running, jumping and who's got the ball THE MAGNIFICENT
  FIVE girls from Walton won
  the JS netball tournament at
  Dulwich on Easter Monday
  — despite the fact that every
  other team had seven players.
  In fact, so great was...

• Appointments
  07

  Appointments
  N F Matthews joined the
  company on March 17 as
  manager, government and
  trade relations.
  He will be responsible for
  research and advice on legislation
  and government issues
  affecting the food trade.
  K Malone,...

• Letters: Safety first
  07

  Letters: Safety first From AJL Gayfer, Clapham
  It is ironic that while page one
  of the March JS Journal highlights
  the Health and Safety
  at Work Act, page five shows
  two examples of damaged
  and dangerous equipment in
  use...

• Long Service
  07

  Long Service
  James 'Jim' Perry, senior
  manager, retail personnel,
  celebrated 40 years with JS
  on April 15.
  He joined the company in
  1935 as a junior trainee at
  HQ, and spent the pre-war
  years in various...

• Not working keeps George busy
  07

  Not working keeps George busy
  YOU WOULD THINK
  George Rogers would want
  to take things easy after
  half-a-century of going to
  work. But no, when George
  retired from JS on March 29,
  with nearly 51 years' service
  to his...

• Obituary
  07

  Obituary
  Mrs Hilda Cooper, who
  was a cashier at Bristol, died
  at her home on February 26.
  Mrs Cooper joined JS in
  1961 and had worked at the
  Bristol branch for 14 years.
  During her career she travelled
  around the branches...

• Retirements
  07

  Retirements
  Mrs Doris Sherring retired
  on April 12 after 16 years
  with JS. She started work at
  154 Walthamstow.and when
  it closed went to the Leytonstone,
  Church Lane branch.
  She was transferred to the
  new Leytonstone...

• Higher pensions and the choice of a golden nest egg
  08

  Higher pensions and the choice of a golden nest egg HIGHER PENSIONS,
  and the choice of having
  part of your pension commuted
  into a tax-free lump
  sum—these are two of the
  improvements that JS has
  made to the...