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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL
Salem, Oregon, Thursday, February 21, 1957
SALEM SINGERS FIND
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Means to bend Blues Away
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Cliordsmen Practicing -for Contest
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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).
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. 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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