Kenneth_R_Jongsma@harvard.harvard.edu (12/16/88)
Did you hear that Ill Bell has gone back on it's promise to install Halon in the replacement central office? Now they are saying it will be manned 24 hours a day. Wonder how long that will last... [Moderator's note: Yes, I heard it also. I think they will at least keep someone on the premises now. Our local office, Chicago-Edgewater, has had a clerk on duty all night since May. They give him/her other work to do so the eight hour shift is not spent just sitting idly. And the duty personnel are equipped with hand-held halon units. I suppose it is a reasonable compromise but a lot of people were unhappy to hear that Hinsdale is now being treated so casually once again. The few suits that have been filed against IBT as a result of the May fire have been settled out of court I understand. P. Townson]