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Ohio Extension Service moves to city Cradling a bouquet of roses, actor Jamie Farr of the TV icries M.A.S.H., is crowned Glass City queen. Flanking him an all-male bevy of Toledo civic leaders. The coronation In Toledo, he's Jameel Farah was part of a homecoming celebration for the Toledo-born comedian. (AP Laserphoto) Klinger comes "home" TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) "M.A.S.H." fans may be surprised to know that Corp. Klinger really is from Toledo.

He really was in the Army and once wrote a friend, "I've had 'my rifle four days so far and haven't shot anyone." And in high school 25 years ago he really did hang out at Tony Packo's. It is an eastside restaurant that really makes Hungarian hotdogs which Kli- hger has been known to yearn for on the television series. "A lot of things are based on truth in the show," said Klinger, remembered here as Jameel Farah, the real name that he trimmed to Jamie Farr for acting purposes. "But as far as I know, I'm the only one that really is from the home towns we claim on the show," he said in a telephone interview from CBS in Los Angeles. "Like Gary Burghoff (Radar).

He's not from Ottumwa, Iowa. I don't know if he's ever been there." Farr came home June 20 to be honored by the city he keeps before the television audience. He brought his wife and two children for their first visit to the northend ethnic neighborhood where he grew up. i officials presented him a ceremonial glass--Toledo's version of odds 'n' ends Solar collector panels should be angled toward the sun, but the exact angle makes little difference, reports the Better Heating-Cooling Council. At ,40 degrees N.

latitude, calculations show there is little difference in ef- "ficiency for panels facing south, if they are angled between 40 degrees and 60 degrees from the horizontal. the key to the city--and Scott High School dedicated a new performing arts wing to Farr. "I'm the first celebrity- put that in quotes--to visit there and they put a commemorative plaque in the hall in my name," he said. There also was a 25th anniversary reunion for the Woodward High School Class of 1952, where Farr graduated, and which he mentions on the TV series. Farr was back home in May to tape some health insurance commercials.

"I visited some of the houses I lived in on the north end," he said. "Even when I was there they were condemne'd. It's a neighborhood of Lebanese, Italians, Jews, Greeks; you could have picked it up right out of hell's kitchen. That's what it was like." Farr got his given name from his mother Jamelia. "She sang a little and acted some when she was young.

My father ran a corner grocery at Locust and Ontario. Before Dad had it, it was a speakeasy and when he made it into a grocery it still had bullet holes in the walls. "Mother used to work in a candy store and "Yonnie" Licovali had an office above it. He used come in and buy ice cream from mom." Licavoli, whose family name is still linked with the Mafia, spent most of his life in Ohio Penitentiary on conviction for conspiring in four prohibition era murders in Toledo. He died near Columbus, Ohio, a few years after being paroled in 1972.

"I try to defend Toledo as much as I can on the show, especially when the other actors take digs at it," Farr said. "Like the line about even grass dying in Toledo, or the one about there being nothing to do in Toledo but go to the movies. "When 1 was a kid growing up 1 never knew Toledo was as pretty as it is. I only knew what my eyes saw and for as far as a penny would take me on a bus. "It's eot some beautiful areas there.

Now that I can afford them I'm not there to enjoy them." Though Farr left Toledo for Hollywood in 1952 he did not become well established until after a couple of seasons as an occasional player on "M.A.S.H." 'I studied at the Pasadena Playhouse for a year and MGM asked me to audition for 'Blackboard I got the role but after that I was out of work," he said. "I got a lot of odd jobs; then I was drafted into the Army in 1957. After basic I worked for the Armed Forces Radio on Long Island, N.Y. Then I was transferred to Japan and Korea." He was discharged in 19S9 and found that "most of the people I knew before the service had kind of forgotten about me. I had almost 10 lean years, until about 1969 before things started to happen for me.

"1 worked for an airline. I was a yardage goods salesman. Then I was on the original Dick Van Dyke, Show and became a regular for a while on the Danny Kaye Show with Harvey Korman. "Then I was on an ill fated TV series at CBS, something called 'Chicago "That was when I was first married and my wife was working. Then I started getting more regular work." His first two seasons with "M.A.S.H." was as a "day occasional actor.

"It was the third season before I was made a regular under contract," he said. "Now we are starting our sixth season. It's fantastic." Now he has a comfortable house in Ventura County outside Los Angeles. "It's really nice," he said, "coyotes, lots of crickets and rabbits, some deer, creeks and horses." "Oh," he concluded, "I'm donating all of my scripts to the University of Toledo, five years' accumulation." COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) City dwellers who are yet to discover the Ohio Cooperative Extension Service may be missing a good thing. In the past few years the traditionally rural organization has moved to town- giving advice from how to grow a greener, thicker lawn to best ways to meet family nutritional needs.

Officials estimate at least half of the extension service's $16 million annual budget is devoted to urban service. "Our director has been very clear that we not exclude people because of where they live," says one extension agent. Following that directive, the service helped develop an industrial park in Cambridge, taught home canning in Dayton, planned a city park in Gallipolis, and instructed on home gardening in Cleveland. This is in addition to advising homeowners on how to conquer the latest invasion of bug-eyed monsters. The service is especially active in 4-H and nutritional programs in large metropolitan areas, such as Cleveland and Cincinnati.

Family tree session set Marion Area Genealogy Society will sponsor an Everton 'Family Tree Climbing Can Be Sept. 10, Kay Kowallis, a certified genealogist with more than 25 years experience, will be in Marion to conduct the workshop at Tri-Rivers Vocational School, east of Marion and US 23 on SR 95. Seating will be limited and available on a first come, first served basis. Reservations are due before September 1. Registration fee is $4.

There is a morning session from and an afternoon session from 12:30 to 3:30. Register, rolls and coffee begin at 8 a.m. The fee'may be mailed to Betty Greiman, 354 Pearl Marion, Ohio 43302. Be sure to enclose your name. PIANOS! ORGANS! Music Mart in SHERWOOD SHOPPING CENTER TROY, OHIO MUSIC MART HAS ONE OF THE MIAMI VALLEY'S LARGEST SELECTIONS OF NEW AND USED NAME BRAND PIANOS AND ORGANS SELLING AT.

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One third of the membership lives in cities of more than 50,000 persons. Murphy said urban 4-H groups are among the most active in Ohio. They're involved in everything from drill teams and small animal care to inner city beautification projects. Extension officials are proud of another project, a nutritional program designed to teach people minimum standards and how to shop for inexpensive, quality foods. Although the nutritional program is operating in 45 Ohio counties, George (Jist, service associate director, said the most active programs are in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dayton and Toledo.

As in rural areas, Gist said the county extension agent is the main cog in helping urbanitcs. "We've attempted to gear our activities around the county extension office," he said. "In some counties, such as Cuyahoga, this means hiring a full-time agent to handle urban gardening problems." Some farmers look askance at this activity, but extension officials point out that taxpayers pay for the service. The state's largest farm organization, the Ohio Farm Bureau 'Federation, has expressed concern that the extension service has leaned too far toward the city at the expense of rural I If I FRIGID PINK JULY 8th National Recording Artist Of: HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN THIS WEEK: JULY 1st 2nd WHITE WOLF JULY 3rd OPEL JULY 9th WONDER LUST JULY 10th SLAMMER SUNDAY IS T-SHIRT NITE sh Discount all those wearing a T-shirt. SUNDAY'S 4.50 Regular Admission THE LOST Super Rock-'n-Roll Friday, Saturday, Sunday 9 p.m.

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