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August 7, 2021 HOW WILL YOUR NEWSPAPER ENLIGHTEN YOU TODAY? ” Coffeetine Cobamn Will Rogers’ flying fever transformed travel Bruce Springsteen ae was “Born to Run,” while Will Rogers was “Born to Fly.” =5 With Andy & Renie Bowman | But Rogers was 24 FdEd and drawing crowds to 8= “Think you like Surprises? Wild West shows and New York stages before the Wright Brothers zFs 5FE Fd So2Fa ...SO did he” gave us wings Dec. 17, 1903. Fg8 “Will Rogers was the 8g Life can be a lot like Gomer thing else come thru here!” Yep, his nice quiet Satur- No. 1 air passenger of E Pyles’ favorite saying - “Sur- After an initial frantic visit day afternoon with his wife - the United States,” bi- Will Rogers and Wiley Post prise, surprise, surprise!” to the local ER, he was treated blown to smithereens. ographer P. J. O'Brien When you are coasting along, to a very special way to travel But here he is a few days wrote in 1935, just months after Rogers Planes, a kids’ play area, Thunderbird never expecting the unusual, it on one of Tulsa's fine express- later, back home in his recliner happens. ways. A wannabe profession- and famed aviator Wiley Post died in a Car Club show and Cherokee storyteller and watching the Olympics. plane crash near Barrow, Alaska. The close Robert Lewis will continue until noon. Just a week ago, on a quiet al racecar driver wound his Resting and recovering, and friends were testing a shorter route from Saturday afternoon, Andy sud- shrieking ambulance through vowing to do all he can to After the fly-in, visitors are invited to denly became nauseated, then Tulsa traffic to another hospi- avoid a repeat performance. America to Russia. visit the Historical Museum and statue Ellen the Elephant began do- tal and helped save his life — One time being the star of the Will got a unique permit to airmail of Will Rogers and his horse, Comanche, ing her famous stomp dance but nearly scared him to death. popular ‘Heart Miracles Show’ himself anywhere a Post Office plane was getting a cool drink at the Town pump in on his chest. Yep, he had a Once they arrived in the is enough for him. headed. He had no fear of flying. historic downtown Oologah. heart attack. And typical of Cath Lab of St. John’s Hospi- When asked just before that final trip The Cherokee Nation is committed to Folks, we never know what Andy Bowman, he did it up tal, Andy recalls some young awaits us right around the cor- when he'd write his memoirs, he replied, “I continuing to use the birthplace ranch to right. No wimpy little twinge nurse yanking his pants off ner in life. From one second to for him. No Sirree. He just had and shaving where no man the next, the don’t know. | ain’t near enough dead yet.” share Will's roots. Those include his fa- to make a full-blown state- should ever be shaved. (He unexpected can Classic airplanes will fly-in at the Dog ther, Clem, a Cherokee Nation leader and ment and have one that could told her that in some countries and just may explode into your Iron Ranch just outside Oologah, Okla., key figure in bringing Indian and Oklaho- have blown the doors off his this would probably mean they life. But for those who have beginning at 7:30 a.m on Saturday, Aug. ma Territories together as a state. bus. Arteries that until then would have to get engaged.) a personal relationship with 14 to commemorate the tragic crash. The O'Brien observed, “(T)he whole world had functioned quietly in hid- Then, according to Andy, some their Creator, and therefore free event uses the 2,000-foot grass land- grieved at the passing of Rogers...No pri- ing, suddenly decided to make doctor ran a large water hose they know Who is present and ing strip at Rogers’ birthplace ranch. vate citizen ever before was accorded so their presence known in his up through his vein and into guiding every second of their life ~ in a big way. Two of them his heart, where he proceeded life...that is very reassuring. Up to 100 classic airplanes attend the many millions of words of eulogy.” absolutely went on strike, and to pour Drano. (If you can’t Jesus Christ promised that annual event, Pilots explain to visitors But Rogers never worried about fly- seemingly set up a picket line tell, his account is slightly in- He would never leave us or for- how the aircraft work. In the past 25 ing. When he wasn’t admiring the natural = “We ain't gonna work, and fluenced by the several doses sake us. And that is a certainty years the fly-in has drawn single-wing, bi- beauty or city lights below, he was typing we're not lettin’ anyone or any- of morphine given to him.) ~no surprise there. plane, tri-plane, experimental and World his features on his manual laptop. War Two-era aircraft. “You got to trust aviation in war. Why Some pilots perform aerobatics over can’t you trust it in peace?” he asked in a Oologah Lake, which was the Verdigris Daily Telegram Dec. 8, 1928. Are trust services River Valley as Will grew up. Actors portraying Will and Wiley Post Now youcan. right for you? will land about 9 a.m., followed at 10 by a Day of Remembrance dedication. It will run live on links listed at Willrogers.com. 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