'JS Journal', July 1974

Table of content

• Contents Page
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  Page 3
  Branded —the 12 1/2p streaker!
  Page 4
  On the JS spaghetti trail
  Page 7
  A fleet of ships in his head
  Page 8
  Brighton binge goes with a bounce

• Success depends on investment, Mr J D tells shareholders at first public AGM
  01

  Success depends on investment, Mr J D tells shareholders at first public AGM
  JS intends, for the present, to continue with its ambitious
  development programme, in spite of Government controls and
  the disincentives these provide...

• Depot strangers have to pay up
  02

  Depot strangers have to pay up Main meals will cost 7p more
  to non-JS staff using the
  canteens at the company's
  four depots.
  People from outside the
  company have always paid
  more for their meals if they
  eat at the branches....

• Freezer centre number one gets off to a quiet start at Southbourne
  02

  Freezer centre number one gets off to a quiet start at Southbourne Southbourne June 25 History
  was made today here at
  Southbourne. This morning
  at 9.30 an event that will go
  down in JS annals took
  place - the opening of...

• Group aims to help kidney patients
  02

  Group aims to help kidney patients Save a life! is the slogan
  chosen by staff at Blackfriars
  to launch their most
  adventurous fund raising
  campaign yet. The goal is a
  £2,000 kidney machine; one
  of the miracles of...

• Late news
  02

  Late news
  We are the champions! Once
  again JS took top honours at
  this year's Royal Show. Percy,
  an old hand at this game, was
  judged best Aberdeen-Angus
  bull in his class. But he was
  outshone by a lady called
  Jangene who...

• Second freezer clocks in a fortnight later
  02

  Second freezer clocks in a fortnight later
  It's number two and quite different. The East Grinstead Freezer
  Centre, opened this week on July 9, is next door to the recently
  opened JS supermarket and has it's own entrance....

• Basingstoke gets 'a float' with with the depot pirates
  03

  Basingstoke gets 'a float' with with the depot pirates It was all clever stuff at
  Basingstoke depot on July 4.
  First the office staff turned a
  25 foot JS platform truck
  into a boat; then they turned
  themselves into pirates;...

• Branded—the 12 1/2p streaker!
  03

  Branded—the 12ip streaker! With cries of yippee! and
  whirling his trousers above
  his head a naked man
  cavorted around the
  Gloucester branch one busy
  Friday morning last month.
  After a quick fandango
  around the gondolas he...

• Doncaster management learns to pull as a team
  03

  Doncaster management learns to pull as a team
  Team work pays as the management staff of the new Doncaster branch found out at the first ever
  'effective team work' course to be held in the company. The course members pictured...

• Letters: Those Common Market figures
  03

  Letters: Those Common Market
  figures From Mr W J Bridgeman
  (Veteran)
  Figures, it is said, can be
  made to prove anything, and
  certainly the table of comparisons
  published in the last
  JS Journal appears to prove
  that our...

• On the JS spaghetti trail
  04

  Diane Hill takes a little nourishment before setting o u t . . .
  Naples, Italy nothin' - some of the best
  pasta is made right here in Britain at
  Great Yarmouth.
  Who says so? I do. Who am I to know
  about spaghetti? It's in my...

• Appointments
  06

  Appointments
  Jim Gallacher has joined
  the produce department at
  Blackfriars. After an initial
  period of introduction to the
  company, Mr Gallacher will
  be appointed departmental
  director responsible for the
  frozen food...

• Lady stole the match when personnel met Clapham
  06

  Lady stole the match when personnel met Clapham
  It just wasn't cricket. A lady on the hallowed 22 yards? Gad sir,
  it's that women's lib lot again. But Sheila Horwood, above,
  playing for personnel in a friendly against Clapham...

• Long Service
  06

  Long Service
  Congratulations to the
  following employees on
  receiving long service awards:
  40 years:
  J Crane (Upminster).
  25 years:
  H J Boakes (Hook); G V Scampton (Christchurch);
  Miss M Foster (Dunstable);
  Mrs D H Holland...

• News in brief
  06

  News in brief
  Success by the sea for
  Bromley area's badminton
  section when they won 18
  games to none against Brighton
  branch staff at a mixed
  doubles match held at
  Brighton last month.
  Play went on almost nonstop
  from 11...

• Obituary
  06

  Obituary
  George Smith, a driver at
  Charlton depot, died on June
  16. He had been with the
  company for 17 years.
  Jack Williamson, a warehouseman
  in the perishable
  warehouse at Basingstoke
  depot, died on June 6, after
  seven...

• Retirements
  06

  Retirements
  James Herridge retired on
  June 29, with over 40 years
  service behind him. He started
  at the Surbiton branch,
  became manager at Epsom
  in 1937 and was head butcher
  there until the branch closed
  in 1972. At the...

• Will it ever be 'free for all again'?
  06

  Will it ever be 'free for all again'?
  Sandy McLachlan of the 'Financial Times' looks at the position of food retailers in the light
  of the current economic climate It does not need an outsider to tell food retailers that,...

• Ken Wiltshire: a pack of real pedigree flyers
  07

  Ken Wiltshire: a pack of real pedigree flyers Talk to Ken Wiltshire about
  whippets and he will want to
  make one thing quite clear
  right from the start: a
  whippet is a whippet - it is
  not a crossbreed.
  For Ken, deputy...

• Ron Dean: a fleet of ships in his head
  07

  Ron Dean: a fleet of ships in his head Moved house recently? Take
  a closer look at the wall over
  the fireplace; you could find
  you have Ron Dean's first,
  and so far only, fresco marine
  painting under the wallpaper.
  Ron, in...

• Government pension scheme goes on ice
  08

  Government pension scheme goes on ice Pension schemes that became
  law last year are to be
  knocked on the head. The
  State Reserve Scheme, introduced
  by the last government
  and which, as part of other
  legislation, became the...

• Harlow girl makes it a sort of double
  08

  Harlow girl makes it a sort of double Christine Daws scored a
  bulls-eye with her colleagues
  at Harlow when they selected
  her to represent the branch in
  a local personality contest.
  But darts player Chris only
  managed a...

• Medieval Brighton binge goes off with a bounce!
  08

  Medieval Brighton binge goes off with a bounce! DANCING . . . the whole
  afternoon in 1920's style were
  the London Road and Churchill
  Square mobs (left). It
  was their contribution to the
  fete and one which won them
  first...

• Pow! Superconsumer raids Wandsworth
  08

  Pow! Superconsumer raids Wandsworth
  Wandsworth used its day off on June 17 to become a film set for
  the BBC programme 'Nationwide Consumer Unit'.
  The figure merrily cycling round the store and filling his basket
  with goodies...