Edward L. Thrasher set a wolf trap outside the door of the mayor's suite a joke. In 1943 he and three other council members unsuccessfully opposed granting a permit to Seaboard Oil Company for slant oil drilling under Elysian Park from a site near Riverside Drive."Elysian Park Oil Drilling Gets City Council Approval," Los Angeles Times, October 30, 1943, page 1 References Access to the Los Angeles Times'' links requires the use of a library card. 1902 births 1972 deaths Los Angeles City Council members 20th-century American politicians