![]() ![]() 110 Augusts, 1967 Thursday 10C Five-Year Plan Wins OK, Funds on Hand Boca Raton's five-year capital improvement program got the nod Tuesday from a confident City Council which already had provided funds for all but one of next year's projects. In his letter, John Beling, commanding officer, wrote "On Tuesday, July 25, about the date this letter reaches you, (Continued on A) BOCA RATON NEWS Vol. "I feel sorry for the parents who received the bad news." Ironically, the Houghtons received a monthly newsletter from the captain of the Forrestal the day after they received word of their son's safety. '''We just prayed all the while.you pray not only for your own son s safety but for all the other boys on that carrier," Her reaction to the news that her son was safe? "I couldn't begin to describe it to you. ![]() ![]() "I was sick right down to the bottom of my toes," Mrs. From then on the only word they received was what they could gather from television. First word the Houghtons received that there was trouble aboard the Forrestal was on a television news report at 1:30 a.m. "He said from then on he was fighting fire," Mrs. He got up, went up to the top deck and found that the fuel had exploded. Thefire alarm went off just as he was getting ready to lie down. He told his parents that he had just gone off duty and had gone 'down to his bunk to get some sleep. He was in charge of the gunnery aboard the Forrestal. Mitchell School and Boca Raton High School before he enlisted in the Navy. The long wait which began Saturday morning ended Monday evening when Carl himself told his parents via overseas phone call that he was "singed but "very thankful to be alive." Carl, 19, attended J.C. Forrestal and ended with the news that her son, Airman Carl Thorne, a crewman aboard the carrier, was safe. George Houghton is catching up on sleep lost during a weekend long vigil which began with a television report of the fire on the U.S.S. George Houghton holds picture of her son, Airman Carl 1'horne. 1 NESS-FILE BISDERT BOX 320S4 'Waited and Prayed' for News Of Son on Carrier Forrestal j m Mrs.
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