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
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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
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