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Page 10 Section 1 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Salem, Oregon, Thursday, February 21, 1957 SALEM SINGERS FIND BarbershopHarmonyFound Means to bend Blues Away . Cliordsmen Practicing -for Contest saw 0-yyi j. . , 'u r,,, iitii jju' Mr. "1 4 . ' r. 7 A WW 1 I It looks like fun but its also work ns the Capitol Chordsmcn, one of four organ ized barbershop quartets In Salem, prac tice for a regional contest here, May 3-5. The quartet includes (left to right) Bill Hilts, Dick McClintic, George Dow, filling in for absent Al Smith, and Dick Roth. The contest is part of national competition for groups belonging to the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Bar bershop. Quartet Singing in America. (Capi tal Journal Photo). 1 T01 . By ROBERT ROBINSON Capital Journal Writer They sing their blues away! That sentence may sound a little bit trite, but It aptly describes the Salem Senate-Aires, a bar bershop singing group, they arc one o( 600 chapter which make up the National Society lor Ihe Preservation and Encourage ment of Barbershop Quartet Sing ing in America. Just what, it probably will be asked, is this organization with such a lengthy name? It is simply a group, made up o( people from ail over North America, Hawaii i and the Canal Zone, which has as its primary goal to "Keep Amer ica Singing, that is-its motto. This society had a rather unim pressive beginning. C. B. Cash, a corporation attorney in Tulsa, Okla., is credited with having the original idea in 1938. At that time I he organized a group of 14 persons who gathered periodically for an evening of social singing. The i group naturally got the idea of ; forming a couple of barbershop quartets. Had No Idea This original group probably had no idea what their action.- were about to bring. The memhers simply organized because they liked to sing and singing seemed like an excellent way for them to relax and forget their troubles. Other cities heard about the idea, however, and established similar groups. A mushrooming process then took affect. Now Ihe society has more than 26,000 members. Most of them arc in the United States but there arc also some in Canada, Alaska, Ha- j waii and the Canal Zone. Each year the society sponsors an international barbershop and chorus' contest for its member groups. In order to keep the entry list from being too bulky, the or ganization has broken down its members into regional districts. These districts in turn are made up ol the chapters, which are or ganized in the district's various cities, 33 Chapters The regional area, of which the Senate-Aires are a part, is called the Evergreen district. It contains 33 separate chapters similar to the one in Salem. The Senate-Aires, with a current membership of 30, rank 12th in size in the district. The local group is now seeking new members in hopes of bringing its total membership to about 50. The Senate-Aires meet every Monday night at the Senator hotel.' At the sessions, "we have a good time singing and having fun," one Senale-Aire said in an interview this week. "Some of us may have troubled minds when we get here, but by the time we leave we have forgotten ail our worries," he con-' tinued. "Singing does that for you. The Senate-Aires are busier than usual right now. They are making plans for the regional barbershop quartet contest which they wiil host, May 3-5, in the North Salem high school auditorium. The way the program is set up, the top two quartets in this con test will automatically qualify for the international competition. This year the international event will be held in Los Angeles, June 19-23. 'Have Good Chance' "We never have won a trip to the international," said Andy Staat, secretary of the Senate-Aires. "But this year we have a good chance." Staat went on to explain that the Capitol Chordsmcn, the local chapter's best ot four quartets, has high hopes of nailing one of. the regional berths. The Chordsmcn placed sixth in the regionals last year. At that time they had only been organized a week, aow, after I a whole year of working together, their chances of improving on the sixth place finish seem good. The Capitol Chordsmen four some is made up of Dick McClint ic, Dick Roth, Bill Hilts and Al Smith. ' In the past - couple of months it has sung for several gatherings in the Salem area. These performances were designed to season the quartet for the con tests ahead. - But, no matter how the Chords men fare in the competition, no one will be too disappointed. Win ning prizes is not the Senate-Aires' singing goal. They just do It for the fun and relaxation. And that even goes for the "crows," a nick name given to non-singing mem bers of the group. ALL OF US CHICKENS WAUKESHA, Wis. tfl The Chicken Delight eatery here Is lo cated on White Rock Avenue. Plane Falls in Bay RIO DE JANEIRO Ifl-A twin, engine plane overshot Rio's San tos Dumont Airport yesterday and plunged into the bay. Firemen rescued the seven passengers and crew of six before the plane sank. None were injured. CLEVER BUT CARELESS FORREST CITY, Ark. tfl Joe Williams, a junkyard employe, found a 1957 Kansas auto tag and a 1956 Arkansas truck tag and by clever cutting .and patching came up with a pretty convincing ver sion of a 1957 Arkansas truck tag. Things went well until he care lessly parked the truck in a no parking area. When the, officer bent close to read the license plate in uncertain light the fake was discovered. It cost Williams $125 for using fictitious license. House Halves FNMA Budget WASHINGTON (fl - The Housa has voted to give the government another 500 million dollars to help increase the flow of home mort gage money. In doing so Wednesday, the House cut in half President Eisen hower's request to increase by one billion dollars the amount of money which the Federal National Mortgage Assn. can use between now and July 1 to buy govern-mCKt-backed home loans. A Senate banking subcommittee took a similar action two days ago. An Increase in FNMA's mortgage-buying authority is aimed nt making more private capital available for home loans at a time when the supply of such funds is tight. 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