Two Lynwood city council members and the...

Two Lynwood city council members and the mayor have been threatened with recall, and guess what scandalous behavior they’re accused of?

Campaign irregularities? Relatives on the payroll? Absenteeism?

Nope--changing the name of a street.

Some residents and merchants along Century Boulevard say they weren’t given adequate notice before the council recently renamed it Martin Luther King Boulevard. The first recall notices were invalidated by City Clerk Andrea Hooper on Tuesday, but more may be filed.

Neighboring South Gate, meanwhile, also has protested the name change and continues to call its share of the road Century Boulevard.

Streets with identity problems are not, of course, unprecedented.

Adams Street in Glendale, for instance, uses an alias of York Boulevard in Los Angeles and Pasadena Road in South Pasadena.

Inglewood’s Manchester Boulevard changes to Firestone in the southeast part of the county and then back to Manchester in Orange County.

But the Century/King situation is unique because the boulevard forms the boundary between Lynwood and South Gate. Thus, for a nine-block stretch, the street is Century on the north side and King on the south side.

Just be happy you’re not the mailman on that route.

It was 10 months ago that Harley (Lou) Cobb, a 56-year-old Pasadena widower, set out a sign on his front lawn declaring his desire to meet an “attr. lady 40-60.”

After interviewing hundreds of applicants, he found Helen Katra and they were married the other day.

They met as she was walking down Cobb’s street. “Isn’t that amazing?” said Cobb. “I got calls from as far away as New York, and here she lived just a couple of blocks away.”

Maury Povich, who recently signed a lucrative contract as host of the television show “A Current Affair,” is not a stranger to fame, of sorts. He’s the same guy who was featured more than a decade ago in Southern California on billboards that said:

“Who’s Maury Povich?” It was a teaser; he was coming to town in 1977 to assume anchorman duties for Channel 2 news at KNXT (now KCBS).

That line still ranks among the all-time ad campaign slogans of local TV news operations, along with:

* “If you report the news, you have to go where the news is” (KNBC).

* “Sometimes being the only one with all the serious news makes us feel lousy” (KABC).

* “We still treat the news as if it matters” (KCBS).

* “The next generation of local news” (KCBS, unveiling a format that lasted six weeks).

And, then, of course, there was KABC’s immortal line: “It’s not like watching news, it’s like watching family.”

Incidentally, six months after viewers learned who Maury Povich was, KNXT fired him, teaching him that there is more to life than news, weather and sports.