The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-14
State News

NeW Haven, COnn, Dec. 14.-l (UP)-Prof. Samuel J. Record, dean of the Yale School of Forestry School and faculty member for the past 34 years, will retire next June 30, according to an announcement today by University President Charles Seymour. He is a graduate of Wabash college and of the Yale School of Forestry, and before join- l ing the faculty in 1919 was the U. s. Forestry Services first supervisor of i the Arkansas and Ozark national forests.
 Prof. Georeg A. Garratt of the foresty faculty will succeed him as dean.
 MiddletoWn Conn, Dec. 14.-(UP) Fowler Mccormick, wealthy Chi cagoan and brother of heireSs and WAC Corp. Muriel Mccormick, Hubbard, today won the right to appeal probate court degree nam- ing Dr.. Frances Clarke, Durham, guardian of his sisters adopted chil- dren.
 Superior Court Judge Samuie Mel | litz denied a motion by Corporal Hubbard that McCormick's appeal 1 be erased, and named Mccormick guardian ad litem and next friend of the children, Edith Rockefeller Mccormick Hubbard, II, and Elisha Dyer Hubbard, II, age 2. The judge held that becaupse of "evidence in- adequacy of the Investigations ard reports" on hte probate court pro- ceedings, they will be reviewed by the superior court
 Mccormick last May began pro- ceedings to have his sister removed as "an unfit foster mother" of heI adopted children. Before hearings were held in his changes, Corp. Hubbard instituted proceedings in which pr. Clarke, school teacher, was named guardian of the children. McC Cormick claimed that Dr. Clark's appointment was not made in good faith and that she intended to re- turn the children to Corp. Hubbard when she completes WAC service. Derby, Conn, Dec. 14-(UP)-i Dr. Charles Tomlinson Baldwin, 90,
 in failing health for more than a year, died last night. He had prac-
 ticed here for more than 50 years.
 Dr. Baldwin was a native of Oneon-
 ta, N. Y, and leaves two sons and
 two daughters. Hartford, Conn, Dec. 14-(UP)- Gov. Baldwin today appointed two
 additional members to serve on the
 State Advisory Council for the un- employment act. They were Miss Eleanor H. Little, state representa- tiye-elect from Guilford and former state ERA director, and Edward [. Lavery, Bridgeport, president of the state CIO.
 | Shelton, Conn, Dec. 14-(UP)-. Three term state representative and | former Mayor Frank V. Crofut, 86, died last night after an illness. Crofut, native of Derby, served two terms as Democratic mayor, and was the oldest member of the Gen. volunteer fireman in the state. He will .eb buried Saturday.
 New London, Conn, Dec. 14-(UP) Crushed under pile of steel pltaeS in a storage plant, Wilfred Adams, A, Wiilimantic, a subma- rine owrker at the Electric Boat Co.,, died at hospoital late yesterday. His widow scrl ives.
 Hartford, Conn, Dec. 14-CUP)-- Connectciut Fruit and Vegetable growers were urged toda yto sup port organization of U. s. Horti- cultural council, to bring about close rcollaobration between the inudstry and government agencies concerned with it's welfare.
 The suggestion was made by Fred A. Motz of the U. s. Department of Agriculture, who told the Con- necticut Pomological Society's 54th annual meeting that such coun- cils have been established in many other countries, carrying in size from Chile to Canada where the Canada where the Canadian Horti- cultural Council has been operating with success for p years. There is no reason why this cannot be dupli- cated in America. The nucleus is al- ready present in every Pomoogical Society unit in every state in the union"
 Horticulturalists now, he said, "are living In a fools paradise" and s.thls honeymoon own't last for- ever There will be one mad Scram- ble for postwar business. and unless I