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Publisher
Grand Forks Herald
Identification #
OGLMC 390
Creation Date
12-5-1961
Description
Cartoon depicts Alan Webster chopping down a tree as hornets, "Public Opinion," swarm around him. Following a year long battle to save two trees, which stood on the south side of the Dacotah Hotel for more than sixty years, the trees were cut down by the Grand Forks Street Department on orders of City Manager Alan Webster and with the consent of Grand Forks Mayor Nelson A. Youngs. The city maintained that the trees were a "traffic hazard" and since located on public property constituted a nuisance.
Alternative title: Knocked Down a Beehive
Subject
Cartoons (Commentary); Political cartoons
Places Depicted
North Dakota--Grand Forks
Organizations Depicted
Dacotah Hotel (Grand Forks, N.D.)
People Depicted
Young, Nelson A.
Rights
Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota
Keywords
Dacotah Hotel, Grand Forks, ND, Alan Webster, Trees, Mayor Nelson A. Youngs, Public opinion, City managers, Men, Bees, Axes, Trees--conservation, Agriculture--Economic aspects