Show State Official Asks School of Pharmacy With an acute shortage of at registered regis regis- ered pharmacists In Utah it is b hoped that a school of ot pharmacy can be instituted in the University of at Utah in the near future Walter Valter Everette Boyden member state i board oard of pharmacy d disclosed I s c I 1 o 0 s sed e d Wednesday Also Aho representing the Utah State Pharmaceutical Mr Boyden said aid that this organization as well as the state board of ot pharmacy and the Pharmacists' Pharmacists guild were requesting university training for thIs his profession Mr Boyden is chairman of a n joint committee composed composed com corn posed of members of ot the three organizations organizations organizations or or- which include T. T Ray Kingston Murray Eldon Frost Ephraim Lee Ernest Anstee and J. J B. B Heinz all of ot Salt Lake City Eleven communities In Utah arc are without a registered pharmacist declared Mr Boyden These are not isolated spots of ot 20 or 30 people either places such as Parowan Kanosh and Moab are typical l of ot communities which arc are in sore need of at a competent pharmacist pharmacist- Sees No Improvement Explaining that the situation is 15 likely to become aggravated in the near future he said that numerous numerous other communities would soon be without service as the war emergency emergency emergency emer emer- gency measure allowing only one pharmacist in a store would soon be removed The statutes call for one registered registered registered regis regis- pharmacist to be present in a place of business at all times and we will soon return to the law which will force many places with only one pharm pharmacist to be closed whenever he has to leave the establishment establishment establishment he stated Dr A. A Ray president of ot the University of at Utah recognizes the need and will present our re requests requests requests re- re quests to the board of ot regents meeting Thursday Mr Boyden continued and Gov Maw has promised to include the request in his speech to the legislature when they next convene if it the university board of ot regents approves the plan Schools Unavailable Other pharmacy schools accessible accessible accessible ble to Utah students are getting more difficult to ent enter i according to Mr Boyden He explained that this was due In part to the many veterans returning and that a proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed ruling by the American of Colleges of Pharmacy would limit the students that each school could have according to the number of teachers Also the National of Boards of at Pharmacy may soon require a years year's internship rather than a years year's experience This internship would be under the direction of at the universities and Salt Lake City is ideally suited for such an arrangement as we have more drug stores in Salt Lake City than in the entire state of at Wyoming which has recently begun begun begun be be- gun a school of ot pharmacy he re xe- Mr Boyden said that the groups have been working for five years to get such a school but now the need is so acute something must be I lne Its just as Gov Maw told us One death from an Improperly improperly improperly im Im- im- im properly filled prescription could not be compensated for by the cost of ot operation for a good school of ot pharmacy for 10 years' years he con con- |