'JS Journal', March 1976

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• Marylebone brings down the curtain in the West End
  01

  Marylebone brings down the curtain in the West End MARYLEBONE BRANCH
  closed its doors for the last
  time on March 6. The store,
  which has served shoppers in
  Marylebone High Street since
  1916, is not being replaced,
  thus...

• Savings mount up
  01

  Savings mount up
  SAVINGS across the
  company amounting to some
  £400,000 were achieved
  during the second quarter
  (periods seven to nine) of JS's
  cost improvement programme.
  This includes the
  central departments,...

• WENDY WINS THE JUDGES' VOTE
  01

  Miss JS Finals WENDY WINS THE JUDGES' VOTE THE MONTHS OF WAITING,
  WANTING AND WISHING
  FOR TEN REGIONAL
  LOVELIES THROUGHOUT
  JS FINALLY ENDED ON
  SA TURD A Y FEBR UARY 28,
  IN THE THAMES SUITE
  OF THE WEST CENTRE
  HOTEL, LONDON...

• Cream-pot mystery almost licked
  02

  Cream-pot mystery almost licked
  SOME OF THE QUESTIONS asked by JS archivist Honor
  Godfrey about the cream-pot in the JS Journal (January issue) may
  never be answered.
  What is clear is that there were two sizes of cream-pot and...

• DATE TO REMEMBER
  02

  DATE TO REMEMBER
  YOU DONT have to be
  Jeane Dickson to predict that
  June 20 will be the biggest
  fun day of the year in the
  south east
  That's the day JS's Bromley
  area, under the leadership
  of AGM Dennis Males, take
  over...

• Food music
  02

  Food music
  SHOPPING trips to JS
  were the stimulus behind
  the writing of the hit pop
  song 'We Do It' by R & J
  Stone, according to TV
  chat show compere
  Russell Harty.
  Introducing the musical
  duo, who were guests on
  his...

• FRONTWAY SECURITY TIGHTENS
  02

  FRONTWAY
  SECURITY
  TIGHTENS 'WE'VE MADE the backway secure - now we're looking at
  the frontway in a commonsense security way' says Len Lewis,
  director of branch trading.
  'We're trying to close a gap that's open to security...

• 'I couldn't believe it' says Peter
  02

  'I couldn't believe it' says Peter A HUSHED CROWD in the
  Basingstoke depot canteen on
  March 1 waited with bated
  breath for the winning ticket
  to be drawn in the raffle.
  The prize was well worth
  having. It was a brand...

• TESCO BIGGY
  02

  TESCO BIGGY
  MEANWHILE at Irtam,
  near Manchester, on
  February 24, Tesco opened
  the country's biggest hypermarket.
  The development,
  which is reported to have cost
  £3-5 million, covers 9,300
  square metres (lOOfiOO
  square...

• WHEN THE VOTE COMES IN ...
  02

  WHEN THE VOTE COMES IN ... WALLY BEAUCHAMP,
  secretary of the
  Blackfriars JCC (Joint
  consultative committee)
  presides over the
  counting of votes at
  the JCC elections on
  February 26.
  He was helped out by
  Aneeta Nayar (left)...

• Woolco pulls out of Pitsea
  02

  Woolco pulls out of Pitsea
  SPECULATION is high at
  Pitsea following Woolco's
  decision to shelve plans to
  build a multi-million pound
  store on a ten acre site, not
  far from JS's new store,
  which opens on April 6.
  Woolco, a...

• Bob's cause goes to the dogs
  03

  Bob Smith - the loneliness
  of the long distance
  runner. SAINT Valentine's Day,
  traditionally the day when
  Cupid has a free licence to
  go mad with his bow and
  arrow, is also the occasion
  for other types of arrow...

• Earthy accent
  03

  Earthy accent
  IT TOOK a bit of lateral
  thinking to fathom out the
  address on a letter sent to the
  JS Journal recently which
  read: J Thamesbury,
  Stumford House, Stumford
  Street.
  It's obvious really when
  you realise that a...

• ELECTRICS LOSE SPACE BATTLE
  03

  ELECTRICS LOSE SPACE BATTLE IN ORDER to make more
  room for top selling hardware
  lines like glass and
  crockery JS has discontinued
  its range of
  electric kettles, toasters and
  irons.
  'It is not that these lines
  did badly'...

• Good service award for JS store
  03

  Good service award for JS store ' EVERYBODY'S
  DELIGHTED' says Geoff
  Vine, manager of West Bromwich
  branch. And so they
  should be, because their local
  paper has awarded the
  branch its Good Service
  Award.
  White rosette
  The...

• NEW PRICING GUN MAKES ITS MARK
  03

  NEW PRICING GUN MAKES ITS MARK TWO HUNDRED MILLION price tickets per year will be
  printed by a new pricing gun that's to become die standard
  price marker throughout JS.
  By June 1977 all branches should have been issued with...

• TABLE TENNIS FINALS AT NEW RECREATION CENTRE
  03

  TABLE TENNIS FINALS AT NEW RECREATION CENTRE BRANCHES as far afield as
  Wolverhampton and Haywards
  Heath were represented
  in the annual JS table
  tennis tournament, the first
  major event to be staged in
  the new recreation...

• the quick and the dud
  03

  the quick and the dud A QUICK ALERT and close
  co-operation between stores
  in Worcester helped put an
  end to the passing of fake 50p
  pieces. Woolworth's were the first
  store to find the coins, and
  they told all the other...

• BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES
  04

  AT TELFORD AND KEMPSTON IT'S ALL THE RAGE TO USE YOUR LOAF . . . THE SIGN says freshy baked bread' and the
  smell of hot bread straiglt from the oven tells you
  it's true. This is the scere at Kempston and Telford,
  the first JS...

• It's a fab start for Jean
  05

  It's a fab start for Jean
  YOU'VE GOT TO BE SPECIAL to have a whole page
  devoted to you in Fab 208 magazine — a magazine that forms a
  major part of the staple reading diet of most teeny-boppers.
  That distinction is the proud...

• Ron's the cactus king
  05

  Ron's the cactus king
  MORE AND MORE people
  are taking an interest in
  growing cacti and succulents,
  according to Ron Harvey,
  non-perishables foreman at
  Hoddesdon depot, who with
  the help of night manager
  George Edwards,...

• Wake up! Your lorry's here
  05

  Wake up! Your lorry's here
  'JS MANAGERS are paid
  for 168 hours a week, but
  we do like to get to bed
  occasionally' says Terry
  Delves, manager of Solihull.
  And it was at ten past
  ten, just after Mr Delves
  had gone to bed on...

• A SAINSBURY VETERAN
  06

  A SAINSBURY VETERAN, Mrs Helena Roberts, who
  retired from the company in 1957 having served at
  Blackfriars, has recently had a block of bungalows in
  Leicester named after her.
  Mrs Roberts has for a long time been...

• Balham plays heavenly host
  06

  Balham plays heavenly host AN ANGELIC SIGHT for customers in Balham branch was
  a BBC crew fuming a scene for the television series 'Angels'.
  Actress Faith Brook, who plays Miss Windrup, the instructor
  at the nursing school that...

• Branch openings & planning applications
  06

  Branch openings & planning applications An updated
  look at JS's
  plans for
  future stores
  and extensions
  Opening programme to
  date:
  Pitsea: Supermarket
  opening April 6.
  Bexhill and Horsham:
  Supermarkets scheduled to
  open...

• YOUR LETTERS
  06

  Breakages are shattering From: D Day, Basingstoke
  depot
  WITHOUT wishing to enter
  the argument on the merits of
  staff-shops, I would say
  though that my flabber was
  well and truly gasted to read
  Angus Clark, an...

• APPOINTMENTS
  07

  APPOINTMENTS K A Smithard has been
  appointed depot works engineer,
  Hoddesdon depot. Mr Smithard,
  who was formerly plant engineer
  at Buntingford depot, succeeds
  Mr C Phillips, who retires this
  month.
  L Hessey, formerly...

• Ben closes the stable door
  07

  ALL ABOUT PEOPLE
  Ben closes
  the stable
  door WHEN JS'S LAST LINK with the horse-drawn age, Ben
  Benham, retired on March 5, he was able to look back
  on a career than spanned forty-three years of enormous
  changes in...

• LONG SERVICE
  07

  LONG SERVICE Fred 'Jack' Horner, assistant
  head butcher at Oxted,
  celebrated 40 years service with
  JS in February.
  Mr Horner started working at
  68 Croydon, moving to
  Caterham, then Reigate. He
  returned to Reigate after his...

• OBITUARY
  07

  OBITUARY Henry 'Bill' Beadle, clerk in the
  perishables warehouse at
  Charlton depot, died on January
  27, after being with JS for 20
  years.
  Mr Beadle started with the
  company as a bacon stovesman
  at Union Street, then...

• RETIREMENTS
  07

  RETIREMENTS JOHN CHARLES, district
  manager, Bromley area
  office, retired on March 3. He
  had been with JS for 44 years.
  Mr Charles started at
  Ealing Road, and moved
  onto Wembley. After two
  years he moved to North
  Harrow,...

• A CROSSED WIRE
  08

  A CROSSED WIRE somewhere along the line
  meant that last month we said that the raffle at
  Esher raised 'more than £150' for the Stamford
  Group's Guide Dogs for the Blind project.
  The real figure was £133.

• 'Checkout snappy, everybody happy' at Boscombe
  08

  'Checkout snappy, everybody happy' at Boscombe 'SAY IT with a slogan'
  was the novel way in
  which Richard Wilkinson,
  b r a n c h manager,
  Boscombe, rounded up
  support for an eight-week
  campaign at his branch,
  aimed at...

• GLENN GALE
  08

  GLENN GALE is the new
  face on the JS Journal. He
  joins as an assistant editor,
  after four years as a
  journalist on The War Cry
  and The Musician, published
  by the Salvation Army. His
  notebook has contained interviews
  with...

• NURSE OF THE YEAR
  08

  NURSE OF THE YEAR
  FIRST AIDER at JS's Shirley
  store, Mrs Peggy Hamilton, has
  been awarded the Dame Mabel
  Tutte 'Nurse of the Year' trophy
  by the St John Ambulance
  nursing division. She also won,
  for the third time, the...

• Personalities plus at JS's big night out
  08

  Personalities plus at JS's big night out Cricketer David Steele
  (above) and comedy actor
  George Layton (right), two of
  the celebrities on the panel
  which chose Miss JS. Under the watchful eyes of the panel of judges, the...

• Senior promotions
  08

  Senior promotions TWO NEW senior managers
  have been announced.
  John Bell is now systems
  administrator in the nonperishables
  area of supply
  control. 19 years with JS, he
  was previously special
  assistant to the...

• SPECIAL INSURANCE RATES FOR STAFF
  08

  SPECIAL INSURANCE RATES FOR STAFF
  THE COMPANY has two staff insurance schemes whereby
  employees (and veterans) can obtain insurance at preferential
  rates.
  Says insurance manager Martin Gant: 'Both schemes are
  arranged with...

• Spuds of the world unite-at a price
  08

  THE HIGH PRICE of potatoes today is the price we
  are paying for last year's
  long, hot, dry summer.
  British potato yields are well
  down and there is a general
  potato shortage throughout
  Western Europe. Prices have
  rocketed...

• TOP SPOT
  08

  TOP SPOT in the certified
  accountants' exams last year
  went to Bob Cooper, a
  financial analyst in JS's financial
  appraisal department.
  27-year-old Bob, who has
  been with the company for 14
  months, completed the...