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June 15 2011
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Vol. XXIV • No. 12
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Jefferson Davis Library Receives New Home
Coble Trench Sponsors Lynchburg Air Show… 10
Old Space Camp Dorm Razed at Kennedy…16
According to Allen Helms, project manager of J.C. Duke and Associates, Mobile, Ala., the library was 50 percent destroye. From a structural standpoint, the library could be repaired, but because it sits in a new FEMA flood zone, it had to be torn down and built on higher ground in order to collect federal funding in the amount of $12.5 million.
By Lori Lovely CEG CORRESPONDENT
Redl and Co. B uilt on ‘Ca n-Do’ Atti tude…20
Damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library and Museum at Beauvoir is undergoing a transformation in a new location. The library opened in 1997 as a research center and museum to Davis’
Table of Contents ............4 Air Compressors, Generators & Light Towers Section ........41-45
life and times, but the building, along with many artifacts housed on the first floor, such as a giant First National flag that flew over the Spotsylvania Hotel in Richmond, Va., sustained significant damage during the storm. Luckily, guns, swords and other artifacts and much of the research on the second floor were see BEAUVOIR page 24
Cat CFO: U.S. Economy Not Far From Liftoff
Paving Section ........49-63 Business Calendar ........78 Auction Section ......84-91 Advertisers Index ..........90
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) Caterpillar Inc. believes the American economy isn’t far from taking off again but needs a better idea of where government policy is headed in key areas such as taxes, Chief Financial Officer Edward Rapp said May 19. The company forecasts that the U.S.
economy will grow by about 3 percent in 2012, Rapp said before a speech at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington. He said growth of 3.5 percent to 4 percent should kick off demand for new heavy machinery like the company’s construction equipment. see ECONOMY page 87
AED Chairman to Congress: Give Us a Highway Bill Now A new multiyear highway bill must be a top legislative priority Associated Equipment Distributors’ (AED) 2011 Chairman Dennis Kruepke told a crowd gathered for the Rally for Roads May 25 on the National Mall in front of the U.S. Capitol building. “A new highway program is about America’s future,” said Kruepke, who is president and CEO of McCann Industries, the Case equipment dealership serving the Chicago metropolitan area with seven branch locations. “It’s about having the roads and bridges we need to compete in the 21st Century. It’s about getting traffic moving again, reducing the costs of congestion, and wasting less time and less gas sitting in traffic. It’s about a better environment. It’s about having roads that get our families home safely. “We need a road bill that builds a solid foundation for America’s future economic leadership. And we need it see BILL page 40