'JS Journal', January/February 1962

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• Bristol
  02

  Our thirty-fifth self-service
  branch, opened on
  November 14th, 1981, at
  BRISTOL
  It is Britain's biggest
  self-service store.
  Bristol is a big and busy port over eight centuries old, with a population of about
  half a million....

• Contents Page
  02

  This year we propose to make a change in the number of times that J.S. Journal appears. We are going to increase the size of the magazine to 36 pages for every issue and reduce the number of issues per year to eight. This will...

• Five-Day Week
  09

  After an experimental period of five-day trading at 39 branches
  during 1961 the firm believes that both customers and staff
  alike are pleased with the new hours. From January 15th
  144 J.S. branches have been closing all day...

• Bake Me a Cake
  13

  BAKE ME A
  . . . as fast as you can, goes the old
  rhyme and when it's not a matter
  of one or a dozen but of thousands
  of dozens it means that the bakery
  must be organised on mass production
  lines. Recent increases in
  both...

• Rally by Night
  18

  Fog was a
  greater problem
  than any
  Mr. Tink had
  devised for
  the Motor Cycle
  and Car Club
  Night Rally
  on 25th November.
  The start was
  at 10 p.m at
  Jack's Hill Cafe
  on the A1.
  Checkpoints
  on the first
  section were...

• Griffin Report
  21

  Griffin Report
  Recent alterations in the early closing days have had
  an adverse effect on branch football. Sections that
  have changed to Monday closing are not able to
  find suitable opponents, and there are not...

• Our Anniversaries
  21

  Our Anniversaries
  Besides the usual silver, gold and diamond jubilees
  this year there are J.S. branches celebrating
  their seventieth, eightieth and ninetieth birthdays.
  The earliest was our little shop at Watney Street,
  which...

• Tens and Twelves
  22

  Tens? Twelves? Ways and means of changing to a decimal form of
  coinage in Great Britain are to be examined by a
  Government committee. The proposal to change is not
  without critics. In this article Mr. B. T. Ramm points
  out...

• Mrs. Beryl Turner
  23

  Congratulations to Mrs. Beryl Turner, who works
  at our Factory in the sausage packing department.
  She was a finalist in the Holiday Princess competition
  at Bognor last month. We took a picture of her at
  work to show she's as...

• Schedule "A"
  24

  When J.S. Journal was asked for a
  simple explanation of a form
  of income tax which in recent years
  has become the concern of an
  increasing number of people
  we went to Mr. A. Jones, the firm's
  Chief Accountant, and he sent...

• British Chess Master at Blackfriars
  25

  Seventeen members of the S.S.A. Chess Group sat
  down to play on November 22nd when British Chess
  Master, Mr. P. S. Milner Barry, O.B.E., came to
  Blackfriars. The Chess Master played the 17 games
  simultaneously, winning 11...

• Southampton Branch
  25

  Congratulations to Southampton Branch who, in mid-
  December, were awarded the "Savings Group Shield" for
  the best result in their district over the previous six months.
  Under Secretary Mr.Kensett the branch National
  Savings...

• Social Scene
  26

  SOCIAL SCENE
  Celebrations, dinners, dances
  and good times break out all
  over in the winter season. We
  just hadn't room for all the
  pictures we received of the
  firm's social life. We present
  these pages as a f a i r...

• Movements and Promotions
  32

  Assistant Managers
  G. BUNCH
  D. COCKS
  T. EVANS
  G. MUIR
  S. W. HALL
  W. WINTER
  147 Balham to
  East Sheen
  42 Walthamstow to
  18 Walthamstow
  43 Islington to
  48 Islington
  48 Islington to
  43 Islington
  Stamford Hill to
  73...

• Obituaries
  33

  Obituaries
  We regret to record the death of the following colleagues
  and send our deepest sympathy to all relatives.
  A. Fry. Mr. F. Edwards writes:
  A. Fry, who joined the firm in 1915, started in the
  Bacon Department, Union...

• Retirements
  33

  Retirements
  We send our best wishes to the following colleagues who
  have just retired.
  Mrs. P. O ' B r i e n , who retired on November 10th,
  1961, from Forty Avenue, where she had been employed
  as a shop cleaner since her...

• V Section
  34

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