'JS Journal', April 1974

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• Contents Page
  01

  April 1974
  Page 2
  Gentle giant makes a clean sweep
  page 2
  Abandoned trolleys: ban at Wandsworth
  Pages 4-5
  Welcome to Spacebury's
  Page 8
  Badminton battle of the giants

• Electronic cash registers to go on trial in first tentative steps towards automatic checkouts
  01

  Electronic cash registers to go on trial in first tentative steps towards automatic checkouts The long, long wait at the checkout could be a thing of the past
  if two new electronic cash registers, due to go on trial at a...

• Abandoned trolleys: car park users exempted from latest ban at Wandsworth
  02

  Abandoned trolleys: car park users exempted from latest
  ban at Wandsworth Another move in the
  abandoned trolleys war
  began on Tuesday April 16
  when a restriction was placed
  on customers taking trolleys
  out of the...

• The gentle giant giant from Buntingford makes a clean sweep at Cambridge
  02

  The gentle giant giant from Buntingford makes a clean sweep at Cambridge Fate couldn't have chosen a
  better (or worse, depending
  on how you look at it) person
  to win the JS Journal's
  'Food Raid' competition. Six
  foot seven...

• Cheree wins a new version of herself!
  03

  Cheree wins a new version of herself! A week on a health farm,
  £100 worth of clothes, hair
  styling and beauty treatment
  by top London experts is,
  by anybody's standards, a
  good prize to win. That's why
  it caught the eye of...

• Christchurch opens to a mixed reception - rapture inside but controversy outside
  03

  Christchurch opens to a mixed reception - rapture inside
  but controversy outside An hour before the latest
  JS branch opened at Christchurch
  on April 2 the first
  customer was already waiting
  by the door! She was Mrs
  Beryl...

• Stan Eastwood looks back on 43 years from egg-boy to bakery buyer
  03

  Stan Eastwood looks back on 43 years from
  egg-boy to bakery buyer Sixteen - year - old Stan
  Eastwood was getting 16
  shillings a week working in
  in a wine cellar when he
  found out he could get 25
  shillings a week working...

• Welcome to... SPACEBURY'S!
  04

  Welcome to... SPACEBURY'S! By the year 3000 JS will
  have swapped out-of-town
  supermarkets for outer space
  fun palaces; offering shoppers
  entertainment, somewhere to
  sleep and selling everything
  from cabbage pills to...

• Letters: the law and the profits
  06

  Letters: the law and the profits From Ken Paddock, operalions
  planning, Buntingford.
  The statement in the
  March edition of the JS
  Journal by Peter Ireson about
  the company's profits
  naturally is in line with the
  company's...

• More correspondence: inhuman reporting, display courses, canteen queues and the Grand National
  06

  More correspondence: inhuman reporting, display
  courses, canteen queues and the Grand National From Mr M W Broomfield,
  Manager Camberley.
  I would like to protest on
  the matter of fact way in
  which you report retirements.
  I...

• Appointments
  07

  Appointments
  DA Hawkins, formerly
  deputy manager at Basingstoke,
  has been appointed
  reserve manager.
  Robert Dixey has been
  appointed personnel manager
  at Hoddesdon depot. He was
  previously at the manufacturing
  division of...

• First apprentice signs on the line
  07

  First apprentice signs on the line 'We had an old van in the
  metalwork class at school;
  I liked working on it and
  thought "why not do it for a
  living?" ' says 16-year-old
  Rod Christopher about how
  he became interested in...

• Long service
  07

  Long service
  Congratulations to the
  following employees on receiving
  long service awards:
  40 years
  A J Oakes (Ipswich); SD
  Goddard (district manager);
  AW Green (Bury Park
  Luton); KJ Weston (Tonbridge);
  AT Pike...

• News in brief
  07

  News in brief
  Wandsworth branch received
  a visitor with a difference
  on March 19 - The Rt Hon
  Makar Bahadur Bantawa, a
  Zonal Commissioner from
  the Katmandu area of Nepal.
  Mr Bantawa, who is the
  virtual ruler of the area,...

• Obituary
  07

  Obituary
  George Norris, a query
  clerk in the chief cashier's
  office at Streatham, died on
  March 22 after a short illness.
  He joined the company in
  1970.

• Retirements
  07

  Retirements
  John Keen, transport manager
  at Buntingford depot,
  retired on March 29 after 40 years' service. Back in
  the thirties he was a warehouseman
  in the cheese department
  at Blackfriars. He
  then trained as a driver...

• Unbeaten run wins the league for North Londoners
  07

  Unbeaten run wins the league for North Londoners North London's Les Gore
  (second left) just fails to connect
  with the ball and possibly
  open up the score line when
  his team played Wembley in
  the Sunday League at Dulwich
  on...

• Battle of the GIANTS
  08

  Battle of the GIANTS There were entries from all
  parts of JS for the annual
  badminton knock-out competition
  held at the Crystal
  Palace sports centre on Sunday
  March 31.
  The thirty eight people in
  the men's and ladies'...