'JS Journal', February 1974

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• Contents Page
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  February 1974
  Page 3
  JS splashes out with £1000 at Telford
  Page 6
  And so to bread...
  Page 5
  Crisis buying craze hits housewives
  Page 8
  Another great competition!

• Election fever finds three candidates from JS in fine fettle as polling day draws near
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  Election fever finds three candidates from JS
  in fine fettle as polling day draws near When the general election was declared three people in
  JS cleared their desks immediately and put as many
  thoughts as they could about...

• Basingstoke blushing bridegroom has a sticky end
  02

  Basingstoke blushing
  bridegroom has
  a sticky end A sticky problem for
  Harvey Commerford as he
  surveys his car in the Basingstoke
  depot car park. For
  not only had girls from the
  office decorated his car with
  toilet paper...

• Hygiene display gets the message over in the depot
  02

  Hygiene display gets the message
  over in the depot In the forces, volunteers
  are said to be chosen on a
  you, you and you basis!
  However, at Basingstoke
  depot, when volunteers were
  called for to be photographed
  for a hygiene...

• Charlton shows a leg at the Lyceum
  03

  Charlton shows a leg at the Lyceum
  January 25 was Charlton
  depot's big night out. Employees,
  relatives and friends,
  some 1,300 of them, packed
  the Lyceum in the Strand for
  an evening of wining, dining
  and dancing. The...

• If THAT painting puzzled you, now's your chance to find out what it is
  03

  If THAT painting puzzled you, now's
  your chance to find out what it is O-c?
  New Yorkers will find a
  bit of home hanging in the
  reception hall at Stamford
  House in the form of a painting
  by Mark Lancaster.
  Forsyth Street,...

• John potters around— and pulls up a paste pot!
  03

  John potters around— and pulls up a paste pot! Little did John Huchette
  know that when he started
  digging footings for a greenhouse
  he would find
  'treasure'!
  It happened when 18 years
  old John, a management
  trainee at...

• JS splashes out with a donation for Telford's industrial museum
  03

  JS splashes out with a donation for Telford's industrial museum Ron Yeates, manager of
  the new JS superstore at
  Telford, cemented the company's
  links with the local
  community on February 6
  when he presented a cheque
  for...

• Appointments
  04

  Appointments
  Jack Cornwall has been
  appointed manager, branch
  administration, and becomes
  a member of senior management.
  Mr Cornwall joined
  the company seven years ago.
  He spent the first two years
  in the organisation...

• Letters: Wanted — a fitment for the gas man
  04

  Letters: Wanted — a fitment for the gas man From J Whiting, programming
  department, Blackfriars
  When dismantling the rose
  from the centre of a large
  ornate Edwardian moulding
  on our front room ceiling, I
  was surprised to...

• Long service
  04

  Long service
  Congratulations to the following
  employees on receiving
  long service awards:
  40 years:
  V F Corke (24 Brighton);
  J W Herridge (Leatherhead);
  F Simmons (Ealing area
  office); A Squires (Redhill);
  R G Jaggard...

• News in brief: Pensions phone-in
  04

  News in brief: Pensions phone-in We wouldn't exactly describe
  the response to the JS
  Journal pensions phone-in
  service as overwhelming, but
  a number of employees did
  use the system to telephone
  their queries about their...

• Obituary
  04

  Obituary
  Mrs C Player a skilled
  supply assistant at Crawley,
  died on January 12.
  Mrs G Gray a cashier at
  Tottenham, died on December
  29, after a sudden illness.

• Retirements
  04

  Retirements
  H Sagar a senior store
  serviceman at Wallington,
  retired on December 24,
  after 28 years' service.
  The following employees
  have also retired; length of
  service is shown in brackets:
  J Iley (22 years); J...

• The Kiosk Lament
  04

  The Kiosk Lament
  From Chris Odams, Student, Islington.
  I'm sitting in this tiny box,
  Watching the people go by.
  I wonder who's more fascinated,
  The customers or I?
  They find their bits and pieces
  But complain about the...

• Artist Audrey pops up tops with her drawings
  05

  Artist Audrey pops up tops with her drawings An Orpington cashier's art
  pastime has resulted in a
  national paper publishing six
  of her drawings.
  Nineteen years old Audrey
  Drage noticed that the paper,
  Popswop, used pictures...

• Crisis buying craze hits housewives: panic buying causes shortages in branches
  05

  Crisis buying craze hits housewives: panic
  buying causes shortages in branches Panic buying by housewives,
  fearful that their families
  might be deprived of some of
  the niceties of life because of
  the current national crisis,...

• New trolley goes into branches to deal with spills
  05

  New trolley goes into branches to deal with spills 'It's such a good idea I
  wonder why no-one has done
  it before' says John Fraser,
  manager of branch productivity
  services, of the new
  cleaning trolley designed by
  his...

• and so to bread
  06

  and so to bread
  ... every day oven- fresh loaves,
  rolls and buns are delivered to
  the branches direct from the 50
  or so bakers that bake for
  Sainsbury's. Keeping the
  wheels running smoothly is
  one of JS's new...

• Jan puts her foot in it
  08

  Jan puts her foot in it
  What's a pretty girl like
  this doing wearing an odd pair
  of 'daisy roots' like that? No,
  Jan Dennett, personnel secretary
  at Charlton depot, isn't
  down at heel - she just put her
  foot in it when the...

• The Miss JS contest line-up — and a chance to raid your nearest branch in a new competition
  08

  The Miss JS contest line-up — and a chance to
  raid your nearest branch in a new competition On February 23 the ten
  finalists for the first ever
  Miss JS contest will be lining
  up during the SSA charity
  dance at the...

• Tidal wave of people swamps East Grinstead opening
  08

  Tidal wave of people swamps East Grinstead opening Penguins and a refrigerated
  meat preparation area are
  features of the new East
  Grinstead branch which
  opened on February 12. But
  the penguins aren't part of a
  new range of...