These five Maryland agriculture a few
minutes out the other day while touring or
chards to accept a Gubernatorial Proclamation
from Governor Harry Hughes naming July as
"Peach Month" in the state. These fellows
know a bit about peaches, as they are (from
left to right): Washington County fruit grower
Walter Bromley, Jr.; Maryland Ag Commission
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Executive Secretary Ernie Shea; Harford
County orchardist Andy Lohr; Somerset
County fruit tree producer Robert Kemp, who
happen to be president of the National Peach
Council this year; and Anthony Rubino of Blue
Goose Growers, Hagerstown, which is a major
marketer of fruits.
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Thymian named
USDA Market Chief
as
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture C.W.
McMillan has named Mildred Pyle
Thynuan, a Minnesota farmer and
senatorial assistant, as ad
ministrator of the U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture’s Marketing
Service.
According to a recent Mid-
Atlantic Market Administrator’s
bulletin, Thyiman will head a 2,160-
person agency concerned with a
variety of marketing activities,
including: classing and grading of
cotton and tobacco; gathering and
reporting wholesale market news
for various commodities;
regulation of packers, stockyards,
seed and fruit vegetable handlers;
federal warehouse inspection and
licensing; market research and
development; and administration
of marketing orders for milk,
fruits and vegetables.
In 1960 Thynuan was the first
Republican women in Minnesota to
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seek national office when she vied
unsuccessfully for Republican
endorsement as a candidate for the
state’s 6th U.S. Congressional
district seat.
With her husband Donald,
Thymian owns a dairy farm m
Ortonville, Minnesota. Their sons
share m managing the family
farm.
Thymian was a legislative
assistant to Senator David F.
Durenberger in his Mmneapolis-St.
Paul office during 1980 and 1961.
She was bom in Davis, Illinois
and received a bachelors degree
from the University of Minnesota.
If the path of the distant planet
Pluto were about the size of a
bicycle tire, the orbits of Mercury,
'Venus, Earth, and Mars would fit
on the face of a quarter.