September 11 Celebrate National Day of Grandparents Day Service and September 8 Remembrance page 14A www.telegramnews.net page 14A Volume 70 Number 6 www.telegramnews.net WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 5 - SEPTEMBER 11 2013 50¢ TELEGRAM *OLDEST PRIVATELY OWNED AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER IN MICHIGAN* Ice Cream Truck Driver Lee Steel comes to Romulus ‘Entrepreneur now Hero’ Put His Life In Danger To Protect Kids Birl Williamson from Ecorse Mayor Alan R. Lambert during his visit to Lee Steel, hosted by the Taylor family. In the photo are Romulus Mayor Alan R. Lambert (left); Tom Taylor, Vice President of Sales; Zack Taylor, President; DEARBORN - Birl the street to be careful while and Scott Taylor, Supply Quality Manager. Williamson, who can always kids were buying ice cream in Lee Steel Story on Page 2A be seen smiling and waving to the street at Amazon and Dix the community as he sells ice in Dearborn. That's when he cream during the summer saw a motorcycle careening months in the downriver com- down the street right toward munity. However as he was his young customers. driving his ice cream truck on Saturday, he became a hero. Williamson pushed a 5-year- But he paid a price for that. old girl aside and took the Witnesses say Williamson brunt of the bike's force him- was trying to tell everyone in self. His sister is stunned Hero on page 3A President Obama meets with Congressional Leaders on Syria (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) President Barack Obama meets with Members of Congress to discuss Syria in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Sept. 3, 2013. President Barack Obama meets with Members of Today President Obama met Congress to discuss Syria in with Congressional leaders to the Cabinet Room of the discuss the situation in Syria. White House, Sept. 3, 2013. “We have high confidence (Official White House Photo that Syria used, in an indis- by Pete Souza) President Obama page 2A Page 2A THE TELEGRAM NEWSPAPER WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 5 - SEPTEMBER 11, 2013 President Obama Gloucester's Rebellion: from page 1A Another Lesson About criminate fashion, chemical tunity not only to present the step that will send a clear weapons that killed thou- evidence to all of the leading message not only to the Our Character sands of people, including Assad regime, but also to members of Congress and By Benjamin Todd Jealous - President of the NAACP over 400 children, and in their various foreign policy other countries that may be direct violation of the interna- committees as to why we interested in testing some of The rebels in Gloucester rec- tional norm against using have high confidence that these international norms, ognized what King memorial- chemical weapons,” chemical weapons were used that there are consequences. ized in his famous remarks: we President Obama explained. and that Assad used them, It gives us the ability to are, by our nature, capable of “That poses a serious nation- but it also gives us an oppor- degrade Assad’s capabilities great things when we judge one another solely on the con- al security threat to the United tunity to discuss why it's so when it comes to chemical tent of our character, not by the States and to the region, and important that he be held to weapons. It also fits into a color of our skin. as a consequence, Assad and account. broader strategy that we have Syria needs to be held to make sure that we can The original state of race rela- accountable.” bring about over time the kind President Obama said he is tions in America is one of of strengthening of the oppo- asking Congress for hearings shared struggle, not mutually I've made a decision that and a vote on taking military sition and the diplomatic and America should take action. assured destruction. It is ulti- action, and emphasized that economic and political pres- mately the introduction of an But I also believe that we will the plan developed by the sure required so that ultimate- outside variable - money, be much more effective, we Joint Chiefs does not involve ly we have a transition that Ben Jealous power, or the desire for control will be stronger, if we take boots on the ground: can bring peace and stability - that tends to alter that natural action together as one nation. Three hundred years before a not only to Syria but to the state. And so this gives us an oppor- This is a limited, proportional region multiracial coalition stormed Washington's National Mall to It turns out that 2013 is a per- demand equal rights and eco- fect year for this lesson. The nomic justice, the working men fight for voting rights is making Lee Steel of Gloucester County, Va., its own 50th anniversary cur- from page 1A made a stand of their own tain call, in the form of the based on class, not race. We discovered the right site in Supreme Court's decision in ROMULUS – Lee Steel, one of the Taylor family and said Lee often ask whether Martin Romulus with rail on one side, Shelby County v. Holder and the City of Romulus’ most high- Steel helped resurrect the city’s Luther King Jr. would recog- freeway access on the other fireworks display by providing countless voter suppression ly anticipated new firms, is nize the world in 2013, but it is open for business. and Detroit Wayne County necessary funding. laws that affect African- equally valid to ask whether he Metropolitan Airport around the Americans but also Americans would have recognized the The third-generation distributor corner. Taylor said his father founded a of all colors, ages and world of 1663, when Black and of flat-rolled carbon steel prod- small business in Dearborn in incomes. The failed War on White children of slaves and ucts known for its industry-lead- “It’s great to be in Romulus,” 1947 that grew and moved to Drugs continues to destroy servants did play together in ing technology has opened a Taylor said. “We’ve already got Detroit in the early 1970s. families in black inner city the tobacco fields. 200,000-square-foot steel-serv- two or three new customers just Taylor joined the staff in 1974. America, and, increasingly, ice center on greenfield proper- because they saw our frontage Now his sons are vice presi- white rural America. ty in Romulus at 36320 Eureka after landing at the airport.” dents in the business. One of the forgotten landmarks of civil rights history occurred Road next to the I-275 freeway. Finally, 45 years after King was 350 years ago Sunday: Sept. Mayor Alan R. Lambert, who Taylor said the firm outgrew the killed in the midst of his Poor 1, 1663. This day marks the The ground breaking took place met with Taylor early on in his Detroit site “almost immediate- People's Campaign, low-wage first recorded instance of about a year ago. The official location search process, wel- ly, but we found out how to workers of all hues are organ- African slaves and European opening date was June 1. comed Taylor, his sons Thomas make it work. We bought new izing across geographic and indentured servants standing and Scott, and company staff to equipment, production doubled demographic lines to demand together for justice against the The center will be fully function- the city during a tour of the cav- and the plant became too a higher minimum wage. al in the fourth quarter of 2013, ernous facility in August. small.” ruling elite. President Zachary Taylor said. Politics is a lot like physics. For “We have been so excited The Gloucester County Two 72-inch slitting lines have Headquarters were opened in every action, there is an equal since Zack Taylor announced Conspiracy took place at a been installed. Work continues Novi and the company expand- and opposite reaction, and they were looking in Romulus,” ed to Grand Rapids and now time when Virginia tobacco on a new acid-less, environ- objects in motion eventually mentally-friendly pickling line Mayor Lambert said. “They are Romulus. Today, Lee Steel growers relied on both slaves return to their original state. As inside the facility. adding to our tax base, provid- serves customers throughout and indentured servants to we tackle these challenges, let ing jobs and becoming wonder- North and South America, pro- farm tobacco. Management us consider that the original Taylor said his Novi-based firm ful corporate citizens of our viding a full range of flat rolled treated their workers with cruel state of race relations in had outgrown its Detroit loca- city.” steel. Products include hot abandon, regardless of color. America may be one of unity - tion as demand for its product rolled steel, cold rolled steel and that the possibility of mov- continued to grow. New tech- Mayor Lambert touted the proj- and exposed coated products. Unwilling to accept their fate, a ing beyond our nation's legacy nology helped prompt a search ect in his 2013 State of the City The firm supplies slit coils and group of black and white work- of racism is obtainable. for a new facility. He said they Address. The Mayor praised precision blanks, all processed ers met in secret to plan a in-house utilizing the most revolt. After securing weapons In his 1869 speech "Our state-of-the-art equipment and a drum, they would "march Composite Nationality," TELEGRAM available. from house to house" until they Frederick Douglass wrote Serving Detroit and the Downriver Community Since 1944 reached the mansion of Royal about the unique phenomenon City Planner Carol Maise said Governor Sir William Berkeley.