PAGE EIGHT 1937 Graduate Finds Secrets to Success The University in 1937 graduated a young mining engi neer, Charles W. Stickler, who, as a student, showed little promise of success. But today he is a rAulti-millionaire. His secret? An inquistitive mind, an idea, and time Stickler springs from an old Welsh mining family, five generations old. His father was a mining superintendent at Hazleton, Charles' boyhood home. With such a background, it seemed the natural step when Charles chase mining engineer ing as a career. He came to the University and attended lectures, but he didn't lake notes. Instead, he spent his time pondering over unrelated problems. He was not a professor's "dream" student. After graduation he went to work in the coal fields where his biggest problem was to prevent leakage and seepage in the mines. He knew the solution was soil solidification, but he did not have time to perfect the process. World War II had started. Patented Ideas By the end of the war. Stickler 'bad married, started a family, and patented some of his ideas. He settled down in Reading, where he and his wife experimented, perfected, and worked on his soil solidification formula. They had little money, but Stickler refused to sell his idea. Finally, in 1951, Stickler bor rowed $2500 and started his own business in a two-car garage. He had a hard time selling the un heard-of-idea of soil solidification; but, once sold, it was an imme diate success. The idea itself is quite simple: chemicals are pumped into the , earth and bind the soil particles into an ever-hardening mass. It was the development of the chem ical formula which took Stickler's time and talent. Includes 320 Scientists Today, Manu-Mine consists of 320 scientists, engineers, and technicians working on jobs all over the world. They restore leaky reservoirs, firm highway beds. stop seepage in mines and tun The Leading By BARB MARTINO nels, build swimming pools, dis pose of atomic wastes, build un derground storage reservoirs, and test products through the com pany's American Testing Labora tories in Lancaster. One job called for firming the ground for an airplane runway, and to complete it the workers had to drill into a dog cemetery and solidify the cogs. Located Near heading Headquarters for Stickler's $lO,- 000,000 business is on the Stickler 130-acre estate, located in a small green valley a few miles north of Reading. When the Stickler business outgrew the two-car garage, the estate was purchased with the intention of starting an orphanage there, and using only one of the buildings for the busi ness. The business has grown to such proportions, however, that today the idea of an orphanage has been temporarily sidelined. The Sticklers live in a white- I piHared house which dates back Ito 1777. Included in the country !club surroundings of their estate. !is a swimming pool for their four !children_ Today Stickler has 30 Ipatents, and is still working on new ideas. He has slowed his pace though, and enjoys fishing, photo graphy and his family, when not !involved with what may be the +fastest growing business in the country. Interlandia Folk Group The Interlandia Folk Dancers will hold Interlandia Night, their 'last dance of the year, from 7 to 110:30 tonight in the Hetzel Union ballroom. Interlandia has sponsored seven nationality folk dances during the semester. Data Processing Machines SALES APPLIED SCIENCE (Degree in Math or Physics) APPLIED SCIENCE SUMMER JOBS (Working Towards Masters or Doctors Degree) See your Placement Service for all arrangements THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA IBM Manufacturer of Electronic Will be interviewing Men and Women who want to grow for positions in: Date: Tuesday, May 15, 1956 Elections (Continued from page one) would leave voting places to be determined by the Elections Com mittee, Beidler said it would leave the way open for future decentralized voting at the dis cretion of the committee. Beid •ler said he favored decentralized voting, adding, "If you want stu !dents to participate in anything, you have to cram it down their throats." Clarifies All-University Posts Cabinet also passed amendments clarifying the eligibility of can didates for All-University offices, forbidding students from belong ing to more than one party at a time, and mandating the Elections Committee to give notice to clique chairmen immediately fol lowing decisions on voting hours and dates. The eligibility amendments .specified candidates for All-Uni 'versify offices must have a 2.3 All-University average, and be a sixth semester student. In the same eligibility clause, Cabinet approved a recommenda tion from Beidler to insert a paragraph stating the fraternity independent ratio for All-Uni versity offices and junior and senior class presidencies shall al ternate from year to year, and if political parties cannot agree on the affiliation of a certain candi date, the decision shall be de termined .decision a coin flip. No Present Rotation Plan The present rule specifies three of five offices may be held by either independent men or fra ternity men, but doesn't provide a rotation plan. Despite protests by All-Univer sity secretary-treasurer Leonard Richards, a motion by Daniel Land, Interfraternity Council president, was passed preventing a student from belonging to, hold ing an office in, or holding, an elected position in more than one party at one time. Richards called the change "a definite restriction on political freedom." Quickly running through the remainder of the code, Cabinet made four minor changes. The first change raised the cam paign fund limit for spring elec tions from $3OO to $4OO. Cabinet then changed the word "spirit" to "intent" in the code article dealing with violations. The new clause gives the com mittee the right to act upon any campaign method which it con siders to be a violation of the intent of the Election Code. A clause classifying students to which the code applied was made into a separate article by unani mous Cabinet approval. In its last piece of legislation, Cabinet approved a motion by William Clark, All-University vice president, changing the method of amendment to the code. The amendment makes it necessary for Cabinet to approve by ma jority vote all proposed code amendments excluding Elections Committee approval. Previously the code said the committee must approve all amendments by a two thirds vote before Cabinet ap proval was needed. CLASSIFIEDS RATES • 17 words or less: 30.50 One Insertion 30.75 Two Inzertions 31.00 Three Insertions Additional words 3 for MI for each day of insertion. FOR SALE COMPLETE SPEED Graphic x 3 1 . f, Kodak Fla.h Supermatic and focal plane shutters, 101 mm f 4.5 Kodak Ektar lens, Kalart rangefinder, flash, case. Reasonable. Call Dave Eber ext. 1183. MUST SACRIFICE apartment furniture— livinß kitchen, bedroom plus 21- inch TV Hi Fidelity unit. $550. Call after 8 ran. AD 8.8820. HUGE SELECTION of portable radios and batteries. Expert radio. phonograph service. State College TV. 232 S. Allen. FOR RENT FURNISHED APARTMENT near campus to rent for summer. Two mono; and bath. Call AD 11-6957. ROOMS. SUMMER sessions. Cool. com fortable. Close to campus. $4.00 and 55.00. See us now. 519 West College. THREE-ROOM furnished apartment to sublet for summer months—only tts. per month. Call AD 7-2E28 and ask for Dave or Marilyn. WANTED FURNISHED THREE or four room apart- went for veteran student. wife. and child in September. Write or call John Dysinger, 212 McKee Hall, Box 1495, AD 2-5051 ext. 965. ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR graduation. If anyone has any extra please call John Wheeler AD 8-9500. Will pay. WANTED SOMEONE to split moving costs of no to Reading May 2Mh. Moving done by professional movers. Phone AD 7-7225. • TECHNICAL SERVICES FRIDAY. MAY 11. 1956 Speakers to Present Conference Highlights A meeting to present the high lights of the White House Con ference on education will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow in - 121 Sparks. Speakers will include Dr. Grace M. Henderson, dean of the College of Home Economics; Lawrence Dennis, University provost.; Dr. Roy C. Buck, associate professor of rural sociology; and State Sen ator Jo Hays of Clearfield and Centre Counties. AP Reporter to Speak Richard Hoenig, a reporter for the Associated Press, Harrisburg bureau, will address the Journal ism Forum at 11 a.m. Monday in 121 Sparks. LOST ARGUS C-3 Camera in leather mat.. Re. ward. Call Jack Spangler, Delta Chi. AD 7-4989. BROWN LADY Buxton billfold Friday June 3 between Simmons and Willard. Please return cards. Mail to Box 261 Simmons. GREEN SHAEFFER Pen in area of Pol. lock 8, Beaver St., dr Nittany Ave. Re. ward. Call Charlotte Parsky l6 Simmons. A PAIR of brown rimmed glasses in vicinity of Theta Delta Chi. Call Tom Falkie AD 7-4402. WILL PERSONS who took girl's and boy's tan raincoats with dorm keys No. 202 and 322 in Dockets at Phi Sigma Hap• pa's Tats Session , please call Don eat. 119 E. HELP WANTED SUMMER JOB opportunity for married couple, preferably graduate student. Program director and spouse as counselor at summer camp for the blind. For fun. ther details write Box 222 Lewistown. Fa. WANTED TO BUT SOFA OR sofa bed. a►so dresser or chest of drawers. Can wait til June 9 for purchase. AD 7-2501. PASSENGERS WANTED RIDERS WANTED points west to Nevada. Leave June 9th. Call Joe Haddad AD 8-9038. MISCELLANEOUS THE PARADISE Club in Bellefonte ipre sents Don Smaltz and his College Cate tonight 9-30 - 12;30. WHEN YOUR typewriter needs eervien lust dial AD 7-2492 or brine machine to 633 W. College Ave. ITS HASSINGER for racket stringing the no-awl-way. Guaranteed satisfaction. Prompt service. University Tennis Service. White Hall Storage Room. After 5 p.m. 511 E. Bearer Are. Phone AD 7-2316. - , _ tie z, ri sz * ' 4:1 ~i- : . 5.:47-:;t,,:i:: 7 i,_ i .7,; ,- , :,:;=, i
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