'JS Journal', May 1975

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• Budget hits the bottle!
  01

  Budget hits the bottle! CHANCELLOR Denis
  Healey's Budget on April
  16 was so swingeing it
  drove thousands of JS customers
  to drink.
  When the news broke that
  Mr Healey had budgeted for
  a hefty increase in the duty
  paid on...

• JS beats inflation... Just
  01

  After the toughest trading year for a quarter of a century
  JS beats inflation... Just THE MOST DIFFICULT trading year for 25 years
  was chairman John Salisbury's description of the year
  ending on March 28. This was part of...

• JS girls wanted
  01

  JS girls wanted
  NEXT MONTH the search
  starts for Miss JS 1976.
  Charmers from all over the
  company will be putting forward
  their claim to the title.
  But what about all -the
  personality-plus girls who
  need that extra bit of...

• Depot chief holds a pow-wow in the Strand
  02

  Depot chief holds a pow-wow in the Strand COST-EFFECTIVENESS — that was the
  keyword at the meetings held by distribution
  director Len Payne for his middle managers.
  At the Strand Palace Hotel, London, on
  April 14 and 15 Mr...

• Disco hoax
  02

  Disco hoax
  A HOAXER struck at the
  disco arranged by Reading
  branch for April 21. Someone
  phoned up the local Top
  Rank and cancelled the
  arrangements, and when
  everyone arrived they found
  the building locked.
  Nearby pubs...

• Elected to Council
  02

  Elected to Council
  GEORGE LLOYD has been
  elected a member of the
  executive council of the Institute
  of Refrigeration.
  He is manager of JS's
  engineering design department
  at Clapham and it is the
  first time a...

• Gas explosion at HQ injures man
  02

  Gas explosion at HQ injures man A GAS LEAK at Stamford
  House caused an explosion in
  which one man was injured
  and a small fire started.
  The incident happened on
  Friday April 25 at about half
  past four in the...

• Jersey jaunt
  02

  Jersey jaunt
  THE FRIENDLY INVASION
  of Jersey by the staff of
  Basingstoke branch was
  accounted a great success.
  It was over the weekend of
  April 12, 13 and 14 that 64
  staff, friends and relatives
  from the branch visited...

• Trials at Reading may be just the ticket
  02

  Trials at Reading may be just the ticket AN EXPERIMENT being
  carried out at Reading could
  result in a new way of marking
  the prices of goods in JS
  stores.
  At the moment there are
  three basic ways of marking
  prices in use...

• Beware of limbo dancers!
  03

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• Caister holiday weekend cures winter blues
  03

  Caister holiday weekend cures winter blues INDOOR FUN AND GAMES kept the unpredictable April weather at bay for the crowd of
  SSA members who spent a weekend unwinding at Caister, the east coast holiday resort. Boxing
  dogs, a...

• Council says no to JS at Egham
  03

  Council says no to JS at Egham DESPITE local authority
  support; despite residents'
  support; and despite support
  from local organisations,
  the plan for a JS
  supermarket at Egham has
  fallen through.
  What appeared to be...

• It's frothy man
  03

  It's frothy man
  MISTAKING a fire extinguisher
  for a petrol additive, a
  motorist filled his tank with
  foam at JS's petrol station at
  Cambridge.
  'It was pretty messy' said
  deputy manager Robbie
  Robertson, a master...

• JS veteran dies on way home from London reunion JS veteran dies on way home from London reunion
  03

  JS veteran dies on way home from London reunion
  HAROLD STRUTT collapsed
  and died while on his
  way home from the JS veterans
  annual reunion, held last
  month at London's Royal
  Lancaster Hotel.
  Mr Strutt was a driver...

• Together again
  03

  Together again
  Lab staff had the whole move taped . FORTY-ONE YEARS ON
  there are quite a few differences
  in the JS laboratories.
  The staff have just completed
  the move into the new labs
  on the third and fourth floors,
  of...

• Treble top for Basingstoke
  03

  Treble top for Basingstoke THREE of the five trophies
  at the JS darts tournament
  were snapped up by Basingstoke
  depot.
  The tournament, held on
  Sunday April 6 in the staff
  restaurant at Blackfriars,
  produced new winners...

• It's when you know how
  04

  Legislation within the European Economic Communit M-Mdihsm 253 million individuals
  working through
  9 National Parliaments
  and:
  Economic and
  Social Committee Interest groups Independent experts National autbrities
  Members of...

• The chairman speaks out at IGD Convention
  05

  The chairman speaks out at IGD Convention OUR FOOD SUPPLIES depend on the outcome of the
  EEC referendum next monlth, said John Sainsbury,
  chairman of JS, in a forceful argument spelling out why
  Britain should remain a meimber...

• Energy conservation campaign gets up steam
  06

  Energy conservation campaign gets up steam DID YOU KNOW that the
  power consumed in an average
  supermarket in a month
  would keep an average home
  going for 14 years!
  Conserving some of this
  valuable energy is just one
  more...

• In spring a young man's fancy turns to . . . Lamb Marinade
  06

  In spring a young man's fancy turns to . . . Lamb Marinade The Journal's very own galloping
  gourmet, assistant
  editor Antony Moore, got
  this economical recipe from
  JS home economist Veronica
  Miller. His...

• Letters: The people will decide
  06

  Letters: The people w i l l decide From R J Gates, driver's steward,
  Charlton depot.
  Having read the chairman's
  comments about the EEC,
  both in the national press and
  the JS Journal, I think some
  answer should be made...

• Miss JS becomes Mrs Tesco
  06

  Miss JS becomes Mrs Tesco
  Photo by Wilkin Studios
  Love knows no boundaries and on April 5 Christine Mears, who works at JS's Tottenham
  branch, married Roger Wood, the manager of Tesco's at Edmonton.
  Christine, aged 20, met...

• Appointments
  07

  Appointments
  G Vine, formerly manager
  of Solihull, has been
  appointed manager of West
  Bromwich.
  M Hemens, formerly manager
  of West Bromwich, has
  been appointed manager of
  Dudley.
  T F Delves, formerly manager
  of Dudley,...

• Long Service
  07

  Long Service
  Tony Gogarty, supply control
  at Blackfriars, celebrated
  25 years with JS in April. He
  started as a trainee butcher in
  the factory and was later
  promoted to butcher instructor.
  In 1957 he was transferred
  to...

• Obituary
  07

  Obituary
  Robert Worth, a senior
  store-serviceman at Stevenage
  branch, died on April 12.
  He had been with JS for four
  years.

• Retirements
  07

  Retirements
  Percy Barker, driver at
  Basingstoke depot, retired on
  April 4, after 45 years with
  JS. He joined JS's Balham
  branch as a delivery lad on
  the recommendation of his
  mother. He left for a short
  period, but came...

• 'You had to get your skates on' says Arthur
  07

  'You had to get your skates on' says Arthur LIFE AS A CLERK was
  tough when Arthur Waller
  joined JS 43 years ago. But he
  stayed the course and on May
  2 he retired as personnel
  manager of the retail division.
  It was Mr Waller...

• Hypermarket partnership hits the headlines
  08

  Hypermarket partnership hits the headlines 'TWO OF THE BEST KNOWN and most
  respected names in British retailing — J Sainsbury
  and British Home Stores — are joining
  forces.. .' This is how one national
  daily newspaper...

• JS disc is top of the jobs
  08

  JS disc is top of the jobs LISTEN TO YOUR
  CAREER' is a record that
  won't sell a single copy, but it
  may make a big difference to
  a lot of people.
  The reason it won't sell is
  that it's being given away, and
  the reason it...