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...Cleveland, Farmer Karl Olsen refused to cut down an 80-ft. elm which is holding up installation of a "blind" landing system at the city's airport. For his elm-and a house and six acres of property -Olsen wants...
Copies of a special gridiron edition will be distributed free at key points of the Elm City starting at about 8 o'clock tomorrow morning, and a supply will be available at the Yale News building, 202 York Street...
Joseph A. Griffin, of 142 1-2 Elm Street, Amesbury, a graduate of Amesbury High School...
...young, beautiful, and eccentric wife happy there. But he went bankrupt, too, and only left the house on Sundays because he couldn't be arrested then. When Craigie died of apoplexy in 1819, his wife stayed on, reading French novels in the front window and watching the beautiful elm trees being eaten up by canker-worms. "Don't molest them," she said. "They are our fellow-worms...
Best hope for the future: resistant varieties. Siberian elms are not killed by Dutch elm disease-which probably indicates that the fungus came originally from Asia. The Buisman elm of The Netherlands is resistant also. The Department is already experimenting with fungus-defying hybrids. Perhaps, in a century, there will be an elm renaissance...