'JS Journal', December 1968

Table of content

• Contents Page
  02

  C139
  Page 2
  News and Developments
  Page 14
  Made for Christmas
  Page 18
  The Farmer's Wife is Plucking the Geese
  Page 20
  Nuts-in-Shell
  Page 21
  Managers' Conference 1968
  Page 24
  Parties In and Out of town
  Page 30
  White and...

• News and Developments
  02

  News and Developments
  New Supermarket for
  New Basingstoke Basingstoke's new supermarket
  opened on November 12, the same
  day as the Mayor opened the
  shopping precinct. This supermarket
  is one of our large ones with...

• Made for Christmas
  14

  Made for Christmas Basic ingredient in peppermint
  creams is fondant made by heating
  glucose and sugar until they're
  liquid, cooling to turn this into a
  sticky, transparent substance, then
  beating until it becomes the...

• The Farmer's Wife is Plucking the Geese
  18

  A Christmas Tale by
  W. J . Bridgeman Dusty Millar kicked down the starter of his old
  motor-cycle and the machine stuttered into life.
  "The snow ploughs are out in Cambridge, Dusty."
  - "You can borrow a horse at Newmarket."...

• Nuts-In-Shell
  20

  Nuts-In-Shell
  by Mr. A. Court, JS Produce Department More than likely, many of us do not get round
  to eating nuts on the 25th or 26th of December,
  but enjoy them when other festive delicacies
  have been forgotten.
  Of in-shell...

• Managers' Conference 1968
  21

  Managers' Conference 1968 This year the Managers' Conference
  for branch managers and supervisory
  staff was held at the Queen
  Elizabeth Hall on November 11.
  Arriving staff could have coffee
  in the foyer before the first...

• Parties In and Out of town
  24

  Warehouse and Transport Section
  held a dinner dance and
  entertainments night at Deny and
  Toms Rainbow Room on
  November 2. About 540 members
  and guests from Blackfriars,
  Buntingford, Basingstoke and the
  branches turned out...

• White and Golden
  30

  White and Golden Congratulations to Colin George and Helen
  Welch, both formerly of Walton Branch. Colin
  George is now at Bognor.
  Congratulations to Geoffrey Orange and Sandra
  Booth of Slough, who were married on
  September 28...

• Obituary
  31

  Obituary
  George Thomson worked in the Kitchens from
  April 1937 with a National Service break of four
  and a half years; for the last 13 years he was in
  charge of the Bakery. All his colleagues in the
  factory will remember his...

• Two New Appointments to District Supervisor
  31

  Staff News
  Two New Appointments to District Supervisor R. E. Gregory joined the Company on the
  15th July, 1929 and was appointed to the
  management of Oxted in December, 1946. In
  May, 1950 he took over Redhill and was...

• Frost Fairs
  32

  In 1814 the last of the Frost Fairs on the Thames took place. The river began to freeze after a severe frost which
  began on January 8. By the end of January the ice was unbroken between London and Blackfriars Bridges.
  Booths...