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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
Winter 1959
RADIO STATION YE5AX
Radio Station VE5AX may not be as
well known in Saskatchewan as stations
at Regina or Saskatoon, but many ham
radio operators all over the world
could identify the call letters as origin-
ating from four miles south of Kand-
ahar, Sask.
Ingi Eyolfson, a Kandahar district
farmer, began his ham radio hobby
four years ago and has developed it to
the point where he contacts more than
40 stations per month during winters.
He has talked with other operators in
all but four of the 50 states in the
United States of America and has re-
ceived call cards from Ireland, Eng-
land, Hawaii, New Zealand, the Soviet
Union and other European countries.
Highlight was his tracking of the Rus-
sian Sputnik on five orbits around the
earth.
Reporting this to the International
Geophysical Year Committee Mr. Ey-
olfson received a letter from the Soviet
Union thanking him for the report.
Mr. Eyolfson said he has made many
friends in nearly every city in Canada
and the United States. Some of these
he has met, while others send him
pictures and correspond regularly.
But Mr. Eyolfson is not alone in this.
Mrs. Eyolfson participates with him in
this hobby and can send and receive
up to ten words per minute..
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NOTED AUTHOR PASSES AWAY
The achievements of a noted Can-
adian author well known to Icelanders,
particularly in Manitoba, were re-
counted with the death from cancer
in Montreal, Quebec, in November
of Mrs. Patricia Blondal at the early
age of 32. She was the wife of Harold
Blondal, son of Mrs. Gudrun Blondal
and the late Dr. August Blondal, form-
erly of Lundar, Manitoba, and later
Winnipeg.
Mrs. Blondal was born Patricia Jen-
kins at Souris, Manitoba, daughter of
Nathanial and Mrs. Jenkins. She was
a graduate of the University of Mani-
toba. Among her best known works
are “Strangers In Love”, which appear-
ed in serial form in Chatelaine Mag-
azine and “A Candle To Light The
Sun”, published last spring by Mc-
Clelland and Stewart, Toronto. She is
survived by her husband and two
children, her parents, and by two
brothers and two sisters, all resident in
British Columbia.
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BILL STEINSON SINGS
IN MY FAIR LADY
Bill Steinson, 30-year-old bass bari-
tone, well known in Vancouver, B. C.
musical circles, last summer was signed
by the National Company of “My Fair
Lady,” then playing at the Queen
Elizabeth Theatre, to sing in the chor-
us for the duration of the tour. Mr..
Steinson, son of Dr. S. W. Steinson,
principal of Teachers’ College, Sask-
atoon, Sask., was born at Wynyard,
Sask. and grew up in York ton and
Saskatoon. He attended Saskatoon
Normal School and was a teacher for
three years in the city’s primary schools.
Turning to music he studied at the
University of Saskatchewan and then
spent two years at Southern Methodist
University in Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.
While there he appeared at the opera
festival at Aspen, Colorado, as the
leading bass-baritone. Returning to
Saskatoon he went into radio announc-
ing, then in 1958 went to Vancouver to
join the Theatre Under The Stars
there.