Mellow Roast blends hit market with cheaper coffee alternatives
General Foods introducing Mellow Roast beverages, ground and instant, blending coffee beans with wheat bran and molasses to imitate coffee flavor. Test marketing planned in Denver Detroit and Grand Rapids with ground at 2.46 a pound and instant at 2.77 for eight ounces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General, Foods ‘Corp
Denver
Detroit
Grand Rapids
Mich
General
Maxwell House
General Foods
Readers Suggest Alternatives To Coffee From The Register
Readers propose coffee stretching methods using reused grounds and higher brew times. They also suggest coffee lace a whiskey drink and various substitutes like sassafras mint chamomile and English teas plus hot apple juice with spices and a milk shake using molasses maple syrup and brewer's yeast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Register
Italian Sauce Wins Trent Family Test at Local Contest
The Trent family tested Hunt's Prima Salsa Spaghetti Sauce in Raleigh Register's Consumer Check and judged it thicker and spicier than others. At 15 ounce jars priced 73 cents at Kroger on Valley Drive, they found it ready to use without additions and planned future purchases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hunt
Aubrey ‘Trent
Hawthorne St
Raleigh Register
Trent
Joyce
Enoch
City Park basketball goals delayed for repairs and repaint
A Beckley reader asks why the goals are not up at City Park. A city spokesman says they are being repaired and painted and should be in place by May. The National Archives Building address cited as Pennsylvania Avenue N W Washington D C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Park
City Recreation Said
Brush Fire Burns 12 Acres Behind Woodrow Wilson High
Fire crews reported 12 acres of brush burned on Woodcrest Drive near Woodrow Wilson High School after workmen clearing brush for a housing development accidentally started the blaze. Capt. Harold Statzer said the incident began about 11:15 a.m. Beckley firefighters were assisted by the Department of Natural Resources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodcrest Drive
Woodrow Wilson High School
Harold Statzer
Beckley
Department of Natural Resources
Statzer
The Register Seeks Families For Consumer Check Test
Five families test market products weekly with payment from The Register. This week the Aubrey Trent family on Hawthorne Street tried spaghetti sauce. Volunteer by calling 253-3321 extension 53 before 5 pm. Test Products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Register
Aubrey “Trent
Hawthorne Street
West Virginia hit by repeated floods since 1961
Federal records show 14 disaster declarations for West Virginia since 1961, all flood related. In 16 years the state drew nearly 20 million dollars from the Presidential Disaster Relief Fund, with higher totals going to Greenbrier Logan Mingo and Wyoming counties. Buffalo Creek flood in 1972 killed over 125 people after funding aided reconstruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Federal Disaster Assistance Administration
Carter
FDAA
Presidential Disaster Relief Fund
Blair
Small Business Administration
Blair Aid
Greenbrier
Logan
Mingo
Wyoming
Lincoln
Raleigh
Logan County
Buffalo Creek
Marshall
Ohio
Hoe
Mc Mingo
Flood Damages Revealed In Southern West Virginia
The Federal Disaster Assistance Administration estimated 1,403 homes destroyed and 7,157 damaged in 10 southern counties with 640 businesses affected. Two more relief centers open Tuesday as turnout at FDAA shelters increases and Red Cross centers offer long term aid across Beckley Welch Williamson Logan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Federal Disaster Assistance Administration
FDAA
Hank Selib
Alfred Hahn
Vecen Ayton VO Suite
Bae Vie Selib
Red Cross
West
Beckley
Wyoming County
Pineville
Welfare Department
Welch
Williamson
Logan
Gloria Harvit
Harvit
Iaw
Robert Childers
National Guard
Kenneth A. Shaw
Ravenswood
Shaw
Tug Fork River
Also Mentioned on This Page
White Plains, N.Y
State Department of Agriculture
Aubrey Trent
Steve Gravely
Grady Whitlock
D.P
National Archives
Pennsylvania Avenue
N. W
Washington, D. C
Rhodell Creek
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!