The Icelandic Canadian - 01.12.1959, Side 45

THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
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ing a university degree. It was his in-
tention to study representative groups
of readers and non-readers of comic
books in order to compare the differ-
ences. His project was defeated be-
cause across the length and breadth of
Canada and the United States he
couldn’t find a representative group
of literate youngsters who didn’t read
comic books.
Every generation has had its literary
scapegoat for all the wrongs of the
young. The dime novel, the penny
dreadful, the wild west stories where
good guys who didn’t smoke or swear
or drink shot bad guys who did. Studies
of juvenile delinquents have revealed
that all of them were avid readers of
whatever type of literature happened
to be suspected at the time. Studies
could also indicate that all of them
drank milk. Should milk, then, be cited
as a contributor to juvenile delin-
quency?
Remarkable Career In Pharmacy Ends
In Wynyard, Sask., the words Pharm-
acy and Eyolfson had become almost
synonymous but last summer, to the
regret of many, the relationship came
to an end.
In 1914 Jonas Eyolfson graduated in
Pharmacy from the University of Sask-
atchewan and soon found himself oper-
ating The Wynyard Pharmacy. A
younger brother, Arni, started his
pharmacy career as an apprentice in
Park River, North Dakota, in 1916.
and in 1918, after discharge from the
American army, he moved to Wynyard
and continued his apprenticeship in
the Wynyard Pharmacy. He and an-
other brother, Ted, completed their
studies in pharmacy at the University
of Saskatchewan, and in 1927 they
bought the business from Jonas, who
returned to the United States and con-
tinued his profession there. In 1937
Ted decided to go back to the United
States and open a pharmacy in his old
home town of Park River. Arni bought
out his share in the Wynyard Pharmacy
and was the sole owner until he sold
the business to Forrest Pederson, form-
erly of the Humboldt Pharmacy in
Humboldt, Sask.
Pharmacy seems to be in the Eyolf-
son blood and it would appear that it
has been transmitted to relatives by
marriage.
Writing in the Wynyard Advance,
October 8, 1959, Mrs. F. E. Pratt, in
speaking of the Eyolfson family in the
drug business, says:
Nineteen qualified pharmacists in
the immediate family relationship,
scattered from New Mexico, to Kitimat,
B.C., on the West and from Park River,
North Dakota, to Wynyard and La-
Ronge, Sask., on the East, are presently
engaged in the pharmacy business.
Eleven blood relatives, brothers, nieces,
nephews and one daughter are accredit-
ed pharmacists. A son-in-law is both
an accredited pharmacist and a pract-
icing physician. A son is studying
pharmacy at the University of British
Columbia. Verna Eyolfson (Mrs. Arni)
holds an apprentice certificate. Of a
staff of thirty-eight clerks through the
years, eighteen have been trained at
the Wynyard Pharmacy and graduated
as pharmacists. Among these are three
brothers, two nephews, two nieces and
one daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Arni Eyolfson plan
to continue residing in Wynyard.