The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 November 1968 — Page 6

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Wednesday, November 27, 1968

Two appointed to financial posts

By HOKTENSE MYERS INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)—Two youngish experts in state finance today were named by Gov .-elect Edgar D. Whitcomb to financial posts in his ne\*administration. The area is expected to be one of top priority, since the state’s revenues are at a low ebb. Whitcomb, a Republican, who succeeds Democratic Governor Branigin Jan.13, picked Thomas H. Taylor, 34, Indianapolis, as his budget director, succeeding the man who at the moment is Taylor’s boss, Director Jack Booher, also of Indianapolis. Booher was B r a n i g i n ’ s appointee. Whitcomb also announced that Dr. James B. Kessler, 46, on leave as an associate professor of political science and director of the Institute of Public Administration at Indiana University, will be special administrative assistant. Kessler is on leave without pay from IU and was Whitcomb's financial advisor during the campaign. Although Kessler would not admit it, he appeared somewhat startled by Whitcomb’s pledge not to increase any general fund taxes during his administration. However, Kessler said that he will work to the fullest extent to help the incoming governor fulfill his pledge. Kessler is Upton Sinclair dead at 90 BOUND BROOK, N.J. (UPI) — Upton Beall Sinclair, who raged with a muckraker’s pen against evil and tried to steer the world toward utopia “with sweat and blood and groans and tears,” is dead at 90. The teetotaling son of a liquor salesman who started with cheap dime novels and ended by winning the Pultizer Prize for literature, died in his sleep Monday night in the New Jersey nursing home he entered 10 months ago. The fiery former socialist tried to reform society in more than 80 novels, plays, essays and political pamphlets. He aimed high and often hit low. “I aimed at the public’s heart and by accident I hit it in the stomach,” said a 28-year-old Sinclair in 1906 about his most famous novel, “The Jungle.” That book, which earned him a place among the great writers of 20th Century literature, was intended to create sympathy for the workingman, but aroused public anger at the quality of processed meat, and thus helped set health standards for much of the food and drugs consumed by Americans. Jack London, Sinclair’s friend and fellow writer, said the novel was written “with sweat and blood and groans and tears.” It gave him fame and fortune. The fame lasted, the fortune didn’t. In his autobiography, “American Outpost,” Sinclair recalled that at 15 he was a Sunday school teacher, but a year later was exposed to the seamy world of saloons and bawdy houses. Born Sept. 20, 1878, in Baltimore to a once proud southern family left poor by the Civil War, Sinclair was taken at the age of 4 to the lower east side of New York City. His deeply religious mother tutored him at home. He sailed through four years at Columbia University, paying his bills by batting out dime novels and dreaming of becoming a poet. In 1900, he married the first of his three wives, Meta Fuller. The couple had one son, David, then, after they wasted a fortune earned from “The Jungle,” she divorced him in 1911. Two years later, Sinclair married Mary Craig Kimbrough, daughter of a wealthy Mississippi judge. She died in 1961 at the age of 78. Six months later, a “horribly lonely” Sinclair married Mary Elizabeth Willis of Milwaukee. He was 83, she 79. One of the novels, “Dragon’s Teeth,” won him the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1943. His writings were translated into 60 languages and distributed in 55 countries.

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already working with a special committee of 50 business and industrial executives who are making a study of each department of state government under

the governor with the hope of reducing operating costs. The bigpartisan Governor's Economy Program, Inc., headed by Indianapolis banker John R. *

Benbow already has begun work on the study on which some results are expected by the time the 1969 Legislature convenes Jan. 9. Kessler’s job with Whitcomb is unlike any present job. In # addition to liaison with the GOP, it includes working with

Indiana mayors and will give him greater freedom than the somewhat similar duties of James Farmer, Branigin’s administrative assistant who handles many of the problems in the -area Whitcomb has assigned Kessler. Kessler was director of thebi-

partisan Commission on State Tax and Financing Policy from 1958-1963 during its formative years. The commission’s recommendations to the 1969 Legislature pointed toward the difficulty of continuing state government and property tax relief at the same level without a tax

increase, but Kessler was not a member of this commission. Kessler is an author of several books and articles on government and politics, and was a member of the Indiana Constitutional Revision Commission. Taylor has served with the State Budget Agency since 1960.

He formerly lived in Knox and taught in the Indianapolis public schools. He became deputy director of the State Budget Agency in 1965 alter having worked as senior budget analyst, budget examiner and Indiana Department ol Correction controller from 1960 to 1963.

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