Editor and columnist Don Ross later worked as a columnist and assistant managing editor at the "Post-Tribune" in Gary, Indiana. He was a celebrated writer who formed an alliance with syndicated columnists Art Buchwald, Russell Baker, Erma Bombeck and Andy Rooney to create an unofficial club, the “Academy of Humor Columnists.” As an Oklahoma legislator, Ross sponsored the bill that created the Tulsa Riot Commission that conducted the first serious investigation into the 1921 Tulsa race massacre.