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...most other communities, the Cambridge CD effort is proceeding at a slow rate. The MTA has posted shelter signs in Central, Kendall, and Harvard stations providing "raw space" for 8,106 people. Not all of this space is readily available, however, and none if it has been stocked with supplies. The local authorities have sent out over 200 license forms to the owners of potential shelter space, and, if these licenses are signed, the process of making and stocking the areas can begin. But according to Edmund Burke, Cambridge Civil defense Co-ordinator, the forms "are coming in awfully slowly...
M.I.T and Harvard have the shelter license forms. But according to Robert B. Tonis, Harvard's Chief of Police and Security and Civil Defense director, the University is "still in the process of looking the plans over," and "trying to iron out difficulties with the local CD authorities." If the College does sign the papers, the government will mark certain designated areas as public shelters, and proceed to stock them with bulgar crushed wheat) biscuits and other supplies at the cost or about $4 per person. Thus the government expense to provide shelter for the University alone will...
Harvard has been stymied in its program ever since government studies of potential fallout shelters were submitted for analysis at a Maryland computing center last year. Until these reports were returned, the University could not mark shelters with the standard CD sign nor stock them with government-financed supplies...
Tonis said that Harvard was "definitely cooperating with local civil defense officials," and that the University shelters would accommodate "at least the entire Harvard population." Radciffe CD preparations are being made by the 'Cliffe's Building and Grounds Department...
Tonis will probably work with a small staff in his Holyoke Center office, and receive technical assistance from Buildings and Grounds personnel on fallout protection factors of University basements and tunnels. Wiggins said that Tonis' CD studies will occupy a "substantial proportion" of his time until a program is developed and accepted by the Corporation...