Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 16

i 14 1 HOUR FREE PARKING Ghimesfille EllcsToWers Washington at 1 Oth ri VALIDATION Dominican shop mondqy! 9 am to 9 pm Army Yield YOU SAVE MORE ON FOOD" YOUR SATISFACTION GUARANTEED 1 10-11-12 Its Radio RyOBERT BEKRELLEZ SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) The Do LoV 0 TrfRTcOFFEE minican armed forces agreed iiu1" 75e ONE LB oq TOP TWO TDE Giant Sixes Saturday to surrender control of the government radio station to the Organization of American States, removing one issue in the continuing Dominican crisis. UNITED ON ISSUE The armed forces chiefs remained adamant, however, in ummm mm? i a RlUSO MW3 mm FAB uitu this coupon By BOB UMPHRESS There were to be bigger marches down Oakland streets years later, but the parade down Broadway on July 1, 1926, was pretty impressive. A battalion of police ted the way and behind them came the Oakland Elks and 75 visiting exalted rulers. The building they halted in front of was pretty Impressive too. The Elks Tower at Broadway and 20th Street was the third tallest building in Oakland, topped only by City Hall and the Tribune Tower.

The new structure had cost $1 million and was erected on, a $308,000 downtown site. Architect William C. Knowles described the concrete facade as a blend of Gothic and Renaissance with a touch of American. In the main part of the building, which rose only eight floors, were the Elks' facilities. There was a Lodge room, reported to be the largest in the West, an auditorium seating 900 people, a gymnasium, a dining room.

There was a large pipe organ and a $10,000 set of chimes which played "Auld Lang Syne" daily. The chimes were later to bring smiles to Old Grads with "Bells of St Mary's" aid "Hail to California." It included a barroom, built In anticipation of tiie end of prohibition. LIVING QUARTERS Next to this fraternal splendor was the other portion of the building, the clock tower, with 65 living rooms and a roof garden, rising 16 stories and 180 feet. Now, 40 years later, the Elks Tower will be the tallest build their rejection of President Hector Garcia-Godoy's plan to transfer 34 top officers of the regular armed forces and the former rebel force abroad for limjcrijOGS SAUSAGE 1 1 PORK 'M 1 diplomatic service or training. "The armed forces are as united as ever on this issue, there is absolutely no change in our position," Commodore Francisco Rivera Caminero, who still considers himself (iiiiJnrlir Iter- l'i, Irr wf 1 1 i i CUT eoOZEN FLUFFO anas SHORTENING NVAID armed forces minister, told newsmen.

He had been ordered to Washington, and a successor appointed. Regular army troops seized the government radio station, the most powerful in the country, Thursday night to protest the announced transfers. PLEA DENIED The occupation resulted in a charge by the provisional government that the inter-American peace force had refused an appeal from Garcia-Godoy for help in regaining possession of the station, Radio Santo Domingo- An authorized OAS source said this charge was "not essentially correct." Diplomats of the OAS met in Washington Saturday to consider the complaint, but adjourned without acting on it. after learning that the Dominican armed forces had backed down on this issue. IB.

WITH THIS COUPON ing ever demolished ia the East-' bay. The wreckers' balt-an i weight on a 150-foot boom began crunching into the lower portion of the building to ELKS CLUB TOWER IS TALLEST EASTBAY BUILDING TO BE DEMOLISHED The site will become the headquarters of Golden West Savings and Loan Assn. ROSE BOWL SAW POW Prior to the Air Corps' de BONELESS LEAN BRISKET POI ROAST parture the building was sold PEAS for a reported $500,000 to an un identified buyer. It was over two- Greg Fallas operated the Town House Hotel on the upper floors until the first of this month. At that time about 25 permanent residents of the hotel and 11 ground-level retail establishments made way for the wreckers.

Jackson's, which had planned to use the building for its main headquarters, found a new location and resold the Elks Tower to the Gerdon Land Co. for $750,000 in 1949. The company leased the building out for use as a hotel in 1951. and-a-half years later before the Jackson Furniture Co. was identified as the owner of the build ing.

IB. day. The razing of tne wwes will be more deliberate because of adjoining buildings. Nevertheless the whole structure should be razed and cleared away in three months. On the side will rise a seven-story headquarters of Golden West Savings and Loan Association, with three floors for parking below ground level.

Completion is scheduled in the summer of 1967. In the gaiety of the nightly banquets that followed the opening of the Elks Club, nobody could know it but they were celebrating an era that was coming to an end. The lavish furnishings and ornate decor of the club were fitting for the Gay UjUWIKi 'ifiiBniflV rr chM aioi VALLEY GOLD BUTTERMILK CUT GRfc' BO-ROR WWM designed for modern frozen-food living with QUART 303's BtAWS i 20s but would seem out of place in the deDression-swept 30 s. 1 1 $1 In 1934 the Elks leased out the top seven stories of the tower for the Hotel Carillon. Later that year they leased out their din- 1 ing room and another sizeable area as a banquet hall.

TAX SALE BEEF STEW In 1938. unable lo nay the CHEESE OR I i back taxes, the Elks agreed to put the building on the auction block to satisfy the balance still owed on the buildine. Nobody CWli Con Cojnc with BEANS GROUND ROUND MUD CHEDDAR i bought in those days and Paci- St i fic Mutual Life insurance re-i tained the building for the $490,000 balance due. In December. 1941.

the U.S. 15V2-02 39c Army Air Corps took over occu LB. pancy of the building tor use by the Fourth Fighter Command, the Fourth An ti-Aircraft Command and finally by the Pacific Overseas Air Technical Services Command. CORN KING BONELESS CORNED BRISKET 0F BEEF CARNATION LIGHT CHUNK TUNA HAM CANNED 19 Port Wins OK On High Cranes The Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) has decided that two proposed giant cranes at the Port of Oakland will not inter 4 We have never before offered a quality refrigerator with so much freezer space for so little! Modern Trimwall construction, pioneered by Kelvin-ator, makes a bigger freezer possible. And it's completely No-Frost, so you never have to defrost the freezer or refrigerator! 14.3 cu.

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In the five-county Bay Area, workers earned an average of $3.35 an hour, up 11 cents from November, 1964. The median weekly wage was $133.67. NOTHING DOWN MS MONTHLY Free Delivery and Normal Installation within 50 Miles Buy on Bank Terms or Special 90-Day Plan Notice our Guarantees, they're twice as good (minimum 2 years on Everything we Sell) We've Operated our own Service Shop since 1924! il III OPEN fAlMI'S POUtTHY TODAY, SUNDAY OLD FASHlOtttD FRYING CHICKENS 11:30 5 FRIEDMAN-JACOBS CO. Since 1924 ii Wedding Fees Up GRETNA GREEN, Scotland (AP) Wedding fees at Scot-land's village of runaway couples, Gretna Green, have gone up from 14 shillings ($1.96) to 1 pound 15 shillings 1923 SAN PABLO OAKLAND 444-0544 BREASTS.