Faming Progress, Problems Ortho Official Leading personalities at the annual Ortho fertilizer ban quet were, from left: Willis Rohrer of P. L. Rohrer and Bro. Inc., master of ceremonies; Maxwell Maichele, Ortho agronomist, and David Barlow, Ortho Division general manager, and keynote speaker at the banquet. Mrs. Henry Musset Gives 28 Years To Girl Scouts Mrs. Charles G. McSparran Lancaster Farming Staff Writer March 8-14 is GIRL SCOUT WEEK You are aware of it if you have a daughter or a sister in scouting or perhaps a Girl Scout has been to your door selling cookies The Girl Scout Council sponsors the cookie sale annually at this time of year to raise funds to build and maintain their camps The camps could not be kept without the cookie sale. Everyone realizes what a fine organization Girl Scouts is for gnls If you’d like to help the Scouts, just call one of them and ask if they have any cookies left to sell Another means of raising funds is the ealendai sale near the end of the year These calendars foi your wall or desk have important dates on them such as leligious and national holidays and spaces to keep memos and appointments for each day The proceeds fiom the sale of Gnl Scout cal endars go to campei ships, to assist girls going to camp Financial assistance foi this purpose is also received fiom seivice clubs and individuals A lady who has given unspaungly of her time and talents to Girl Scouting foi 28 years is Mrs Henry (Esthei) Musser who lives between Florin and Donegal Springs The 28 years is almost half the yeais the Girl Scout organization has existed It was founded March 12, 1912 She was never a Scout herself, oi even a lead er, but a behind-the-scenes, very necessary prson She started on a very limited basis when her family was younger She was one of the fiist neighborhood Chairman A Neighborhood Chair man is responsible for seeing that all the gnls in her area have troops, leaders, meeting places and a sponsor, if possible From this office she advanced to district chair man. She worked with four or five neighboihood chairmen and a professional advisor Their duties are to set up training courses for leadeis, tiain committee members, set up day camps, piovide other opportunities foi girls in outdoois and meet with other tioops in combined events All woik togethei to help a girl giow up to be a well adjust ed, happy, lesponsible woman Mis Mussei was a member of the boaul of di rectors of Lancastei Countv Gnl Scout Council foi 13 yeais, a committee chan man and finally piesi dent fiom 1956 to 1959 She saw hei Council pin chase and develop then lesident camp, 'Furnace Hills m Clav Town ship, wheie gnls 7 to 17 yeais old attend camp ioi two-week pcuods Then day camps iveie developed in each neigh boihood foi a torn 01 five dav camp expeuence including, eookouts, learning skills and shaung many group expeuences Ti oop Camping in which a tioop and its lead ers go camping for a weekend or longei, was be gun Girls also go on tups, often working and earn ing money loi two or three years for their tiip. They might go to Savannah, Georgia, the birth olaee of the Girl Scout founder Juliette Low, or Sees Exciting Decade Thu 1970's will bu a decade of exciting changes and progress which could levolutioni/e fann ing as well as a decade in which agiiculUue will be challenged by lough problems and issues That was the assessment of David Bailow, vice piesident of the Chevron Chemical Company and geneial manager of the Or tho Division, at the annual Or tha fcitilizei banquet of P L Kolncr and Bio Inc Monday night at Meadow Hills Dining House A paiticular pioblem is the “diminishing clout” of agiicul ture in the state houses and the Congiess, Bailow said “Agiicultuie has done such gieat job in the past decade, we have met all the needs of the countiy with fewer people and we still ship moie pioducts over seas than evei before ” As the cities have grown, many young people “have grown to ex pect the food will be there” and these city people aren’t familial with the pioblems of raising food-stuffs, he said. “They don’t realize and frank ly I don’t think we have done a to New York or to Canada They stop with other council groups in aieas visited. In 1960 Lancaster County Council merged with Penn Laurel Girl Scout Council which encompass es Yoik, Franklin, Fulton, Adams, Lebanon and Lancaster Counties Mrs Mussel was chairman of the stiuctuie committee of the new Council and helped draw up their by-laws She is now a member of the personnel commit tee which plans training courses and sets them up in diffeient aieas foi then large council These couises piepaie leadeis for tioop leadeiship, camp ing skills, troop government, crafts, outdoors, gill participation and responsibility. Patrol system or hoop goveinment is stiessed This helps gnls learn to govern themselves and make decisions Campeiships go to about 200 gnls a yeai. The peisonnel committee also sets up job le qmiements foi the diffeient professional posi tions in the council Mrs. Musser is proud of her china plate with inlaid stones from India and her wooden horseback rider from Haiti. City People vuy good job to acquaint them with some of the pioblems we face " The declining farm population and the mcieasmg urban popu lation means "our influence is going to bo smaller in the stale houses and Congress Agiicul tine has got to find some othe way to see that Us mteiCits aie upiesentcd " Theie aie also pioblems of the environment, including "a sub stantial anti-pesticide campaign" and the issue of "nitiates in oui watei supply ” Barlow leadily conceded that Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 7.1970 —17 I^WK^P^ng SECOND SECTION There is an executive director, or director of field services for each of the seven districts, who is to see that scouting is being available and working in all districts and counties of the Penn Laurel Council In Lancaster Countv there aie thiee districts- Landis Valley, Witness Tree and Rockford. There is-a directar- of personnel and training, director of progi am sei vices and camping, dn ector of finances and director of public relations Theie aie four age gioups in Girl Scouting: Biowmes—ages 7 and 8, Juniors—9 to 11 years; Cadettes—l 2 to 14 yeais, and Seniors—ls to 17 yeais Theie are 6,783 Gnl Scouts legisteied in Lan caster County and theie may be aiound 600 not legistered to date, plus 1,515 adult volunteers quite an army This compares to less than 2,000 Gnl Scouts when Mrs Mussel’s scouting career began There are 10 day camp sites in this aiea three in Lancaster County, two established camps, Fur nace Hills m Lancaster Countv and Echo Tiail in Yoik County Theie is also family camp over the Laboi Day week-end in September at Echo Trail and lastly troop camps at Echo Tiail Seivice projects aie a laige pait of the pro grams of older girls, who serve as aides in hospit als, libianes, and homes for the aged Younger girls make articles for and often visit shut-ins Mrs. Musser says, “I like adult leadeiship For me, scouting has been a very rewarding and enrich ing experience. Woiking with gnls and helping to provide a program that has meaning has kept me intei ested in scouting all these years ” Mrs Musser, the former Esthei Gish, was born and raised on a farm rear Elizabethtown. As a girl, she assisted with farm chores, gathered eggs, helped with tobacco and milked by hand She giaduated from Elizabethtown College in 1925, taught French and was librarian in New Cumberland High School for nine years She married Henry Musser who is co-owner with his brother Martin of the Musser Leghorn Faims These bi others staited then hatchery business when they weie still in high school and have been in business 54 yeais Besides selling chicks they also sell a limited numbei of matured pullets Hemy is the thud geneiahon to live on this 100 acie hum 'Mi and Mis Mitsui a’e membe’s of the Eliza bethtown Chinch 0-" God Mi Mussei is a membei ot the Elen's Fellowship and his neon a membei of the Chinch Council fot 16 vea's Mi Mussei was on the East Donegal School Boaid l oi 12 veais Both Mi and Mis Mussei enjoy symphonic Music Esthei has been a teache. of the adult couples Sunday School class of 50 oi 60 membeis for 29 yeais and savs it has been anothei icwaidmg and giowing experience She was chan man of Women’s Missionary Depaitment fox seveial yeais and has been on the boai d of their chui ch’s Commission on World Missions of the General Conference for ten yeais and is serving as secretary at present. Sfa# the pesticide and inliate issues .nc legitimate ones Emotional Issue Bui he ui«ed th.it thc> not be* come meiel.s emotional and poll* tic.il issues and that nip iculluro «et "a f...i evaluation" in the pi ess Pesticides must not be lumped into a jp oup Each pesticide must be evaluated in terms of whether the nsk-. outweigh the benefits. When the risks outw<-:2h the benefits, “the paiticulai pesticide should be banned ” Unfoitunalely he said, increas (Continued on Payo 26) (Continued on Page 22)
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