'JS Journal', June 1975

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• Branch staff keep it clean
  01

  Hygiene in British food stores took a hammering recently but the latest hygiene checklist shows
  Branch staff keep it clean JS STORES ARE CLEANER THAN EVER reports
  JS's team of hygiene officers, at the halfway mark of
  their...

• J is for Jackie, June and judo!
  01

  J is for Jackie, June and judo! IN MAY we asked you to
  nominate girls who might be
  too shy to enter themselves
  for the Miss JS contest.
  Our June girl is Jackie
  Cole, an 18-year-old
  cockney who's been with JS
  since she left...

• Stamford Group's cash goes into action and starts saving lives
  01

  Stamford Group's cash goes into action and starts saving lives A FAT CHEQUE for £2080
  collected by the Stamford
  Group has been handed over
  to buy a kidney machine for a
  London hospital.
  The money was collected in
  11 months...

• Depot gets a new first aid room
  02

  Depot gets a new first aid room A SPECIALLY FITTED
  first aid room is now in use at
  Hoddesdon depot.
  This marks an improvement
  in the health facilities at
  the depot, both for the treatment
  of accidental injuries
  and for...

• Display cages make life easier
  02

  Display cages make life easier NEW-STYLE DISPLAY
  units are making life easier
  for staff at Woolwich branch,
  and they could be the shape
  of things to come in JS stores
  up and down the country.
  Instead of being loaded...

• It's a bird . . . it's a plane . . . no it's . . .
  02

  It's a bird . . . it's a plane . . . no it's . . . LEFT HAND down a bit . . .
  to me, to you . . . gently does
  it and 10 tons of escalator
  conies safely to rest, at the
  start of a 50 or so mile
  journey to JS's new branch
  at...

• Pied a tyre
  02

  Pied a tyre
  DUNROMIN and Restawyle
  are two bijou residences that,
  in estate agents'jargon, could
  be described as 'close to
  shops with ample garage
  space'.
  However, traffic noise
  might prove troublesome.
  These are the...

• The big one
  02

  The big one IT WAS HEADLINE NEWS in the computer industry
  when JS signed the contract to buy their new computer
  from International Computers Limited.
  The new computer is part of the ICL 2900 series,
  which the manufacturers...

• A breath of French air
  03

  A breath of French air
  TWO PARTIES of SSA
  members, together with their
  families and friends and several
  JS veterans, crossed the
  channel for a breath of
  French air in Boulogne.
  On May 10 the first group
  of about 250 adults...

• Bristol gives customer a touch of the sun
  03

  Bristol gives customer
  a touch of the sun SAINSBURY SHOPPER
  Mrs Lindsay Long won a
  two-week sunshine holiday
  for herself and husband
  Roger when she entered a
  Family Circle magazine competition.
  The prize tickets for...

• Down at the depots and up at the branches they're all at it - saving energy on every front
  03

  Down at the depots and up at the branches they're all at it
  saving energy on every front MORE THAN A THIRD was knocked off the electricity
  bill after two months of the JS energy conservation
  campaign at Chesham branch. In...

• Late news
  03

  Late news HUMBLE JS SUPERMARKET
  trolleys made
  news when they carried the
  future of Britain in their baskets
  — for just one day.
  After the nation had been
  to the polls to vote Yes or No
  in the Common Market
  referendum, a...

• Surrey with the cringe on top
  03

  Surrey with the cringe on top
  SHORT, SHARP and
  straight to the point was the
  recent memo from branch
  trading telling us that in
  future, to avoid confusion
  with Sutton Coldfield, JS's
  Sutton branch would be
  known as Sutton...

• What's brewing?
  04

  What's brewing? Dear Editor More power to the elbows of those responsible for
  htroducing JS Bitter in the red four-pint can. I think it is far
  and away the best canned beer on the British market. A
  "his completely unsolicited...

• Introducing Jane . . .
  06

  Introducing Jane . . .
  A NEW FACE joins the JS
  Journal this month. She's
  Jane Hughes, 22, who has
  been working for the past
  four years on local
  newspapers in north London.
  She succeeds Phyllis
  Rowlands, who has...

• Peace of mind at the poolside
  06

  Peace of mind at the poolside FRANK ALLEN is a
  swimming instructor with
  a difference. His pupils are
  disabled, often without
  arms or legs.
  Mr Allen, who is manager
  of branch display at
  JS, has for the past five
  years...

• Poet May Park gets a letter of thanks from Margaret Thatcher
  06

  Poet May Park gets a letter of thanks from
  Margaret Thatcher MAY PARK may not vote
  Conservative, but she was
  impressed with Mrs Margaret
  Thatcher's achievement in
  becoming leader of the Tory
  Party.
  So impressed, in fact,...

• Appointments
  07

  Appointments
  J Van Huysse, formerly manager
  of Southbourne Freezer
  Centre, has been appointed
  warehouse manager at
  Christchurch.
  G Muir, formerly reserve
  manager of Stratford, has
  been appointed manager of
  Harold Hill.
  R...

• Long Service
  07

  Long Service
  Charles 'Charlie' Hacker,
  transport supervisor at Buntingford
  depot, celebrated 40
  years with JS on June 3.
  He joined the company in
  1935 as a warehouseman at
  Blackfriars and the following
  year he became a...

• Obituary
  07

  Obituary
  John Williams, who worked
  at Streatham as a cost accountant
  d'ed on May 18 after a
  long illness.
  Mr Williams, 50, joined the
  company in January 1958.
  He was promoted to assistant
  accountant in December
  1973....

• Retirements
  07

  Retirements
  Flo Soley, part-time supply
  assistant, retired on April 26
  after 29 years with JS. Mrs
  Soley started work at Holloway
  in 1946 and later worked
  at the Holloway Road
  branch.
  Harry Spreadbury, returns
  cage...

• When did you last see this caddy?
  07

  When did you last see this caddy?

• Buntingford club keeps on the rails and lets off steam
  08

  Buntingford club keeps on the rails and lets off steam THE GLORY OF STEAM
  and the splendour of bygone
  railway ages are what unites
  the members of Buntingford's
  Steam Railway Club as
  they travel the country
  visiting the...

• John Burgin discovers the joys of not going to work
  08

  John Burgin discovers the joys of not going to work TWENTY-THREE YEARS of retirement behind him,
  and JS veteran John Burgin is enjoying life thoroughly.
  'The days are not long enough for everything I want to
  do,' he says, 'and...