Harvard Square Gets New Cop Box

Because the present traffic box in Harvard Square continually gets knocked over by passing trucks and careening cars, the Cambridge City Council voted Monday that a now knockdown proof tower be constructed--at a cost of $3,674.

Several times this summer the policeman inside the green box has been severely injured when the tower was run into. Last year, during Cambridge's attempt to circle the Square, the box was inactive. After this work failed, the box was put back into service, late this summer.

The new booth will be constructed diagonally opposite the present one. It will be 18 feet high, with a played sides for the protection of the officer inside. Sporting large plate-glass windows, with loudspeakers on top, the proposed structure will look somewhat like a land-locked lighthouse with fog horns.