'JS Journal', March 1967

Table of content

• Contents Page
  02

  C125
  Page 2
  News and Developments
  Page 7
  Buyer Nappies
  Page 12
  North African Notebook
  Page 17
  New Veteran Visitors
  Page 18
  Don't Tempt Me to Smoke
  Page 20
  The Home Scene
  Page 22
  Spring Fever
  Page 24
  Griffin Report
  Page 26...

• News and Developments
  02

  NEWS & DEVELOPMENTS JS Personnel
  Department
  goes Mobile
  JS Mobile Recruiting Unit
  took the road a few weeks
  ago. Its job is to go to places
  near the homes of people who
  would like to work for the firm,
  but haven't yet got...

• Buyer Napples Sinners Tralia
  07

  BUYER NAPPLES SINNERS TRALIA
  JS Produce Buyer, Mr H. Haslam, struggles with Strine Buying fruit and vegetables over the past
  twenty-odd years has taken me all over the
  world, and, as I did pretty badly with French
  and Spanish...

• Fire Down Under
  10

  FIRE DOWN UNDER
  First impressions of the Tasmania disaster by
  Mr Michael Simons of the Fruit Exchange
  Reprinted by courtesy of the Fruit Trades Journa It has not rained in Tasmania since October and
  the drought had brought...

• North African Notebook
  12

  NORTH AFRICAN NOTEBOOK
  Miss R. D. Spiller writes about a recent journey
  by car from Ceuta to Derna As soon as one sets foot on African soil the
  atmosphere grips one. The people, the
  countryside, and of course the smells...

• New Veteran Visitors
  17

  IMEW VETERAN VISITORS JS Veterans Visiting Panel met on
  February 23rd at Christchurch,
  Blackfriars. This year's annual
  meeting was of special interest as
  the first one to be held since
  Mr. W. J . Hedges became
  Chairman of...

• Don't Tempt Me to Smoke
  18

  DON'T TEMPT ME TO SMOKE
  W.J. Bridgeman After Badger resigned I did not expect ever to see
  him again, and had no wish to. I had to train
  another bacon hand, and bacon hands, good
  bacon hands, are not made overnight. What...

• The Home Scene
  20

  THE HOME SCENE Spring Cleaning
  I can recollect the look of utter horror on my
  father's face at the very mention of those words.
  He would sit immobile, drawing on his pipe with
  determination, bemused by visions of furniture
  in...

• Spring Fever
  22

  SPRING FEVER
  Harry Brown on first steps towards
  a flying start in your garden Spring is with us once again, at least officially,
  and by the time these notes are published we shall
  probably have enjoyed some warm and...

• Congratulations
  23

  Congratulations Miss Christine Pues of Downs Crescent, Haverhill who works
  for JS at Haverhill. Miss Pues is the first Suffolk Girl Guide to
  be awarded the Duke of Edinburgh's Gold Medal.
  She is a member of the local Land...

• Crossword Solution
  23

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• Griffin Report
  24

  It has been encouraging to see the healthy
  increase in the number of football teams operating
  this season. Twenty-eight Section teams are
  playing regularly as well as several inter-departmental
  teams within the various Depots....

• Badminton Finals
  25

  Badminton Finals
  Opposite page
  Above—Mr. P. Jarvis of Eastbourne and Miss L. Jarvis, his
  nine-year-old daughter, who won the mixed doubles,
  beating Mrs. P. Wall and Mr. W. Howell of Basingstoke.
  Below—Mr. D. Cutts,...

• Dances
  26

  Kingston and Surbiton boys and girls at the 'Jolly Boatman', Hampton Court, on January 4. Kings Heath held a very lively dance (their first) on
  January 16 at the 'White Man'. Crawley dance was held at the 'George Hotel'...

• Mr Edwards Retires
  27

  MR EDWARDS RETIRES Mr. F. W. Edwards came to work for JS in 1920
  and, except for a reluctant fortnight in the
  General Office, worked at Union Street Cold
  Stores and Bacon Warehouse for just on
  47 years. During all that time he...

• Movements and Promotions
  28

  Movements and Promotions
  Managerial Transfers
  R, crams from Display Specialist to
  Wealdstone Self-Servioe
  from March 21
  K. INWARD from Spare at Bedford to Spare at
  Erdington from February 20
  w. MANSPIELD from Nuneaton to...

• Retirements
  29

  Retirements
  We send our best wishes to the following colleagues
  who have just retired.
  S. R. Smith commenced at Winchester on the
  20th August 1924, staying there until October 1926,
  when he went to 65 Croydon, remaining in...

• Congratulations
  30

  Congratulations to Mrs. M. B. Taylor who celebrated
  her 90th birthday on February 28th 1967.
  Congratulations to Miss Bridget McCarthy and
  Mr. Peter Roffey, both of Wimbledon branch,
  who were married at St. Gregory's,...

• Retirement Parties
  30

  Mrs. Rose Bolton, at the lively retirement party given
  by the staff at 1/4 Baling, where she was First Clerk.
  Mrs. Bolton has been with the firm for 32 years, and
  has the distinction of being one of the few women
  acting...

• Obituaries
  31

  Obituaries
  We regret to record the death of the following
  colleagues and send our sympathy to all relatives.
  E. H. Ramsden
  Mr. L. Wrench, Area Superintendent, writes
  Mr. E. H. Ramsden manager at Luton died on
  February 24th....

• Crossword
  32

  THE JOURNAL CROSSWORD
  No. 11/Solution page 23 Across
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  covered with melted
  cheese and butter (5, 7).
  7. The price of a journey
  for eatables (4).
  9. Generally eaten in the
  form of porridge...