STILL PUTTING: Maybe it’s been a down...

STILL PUTTING: Maybe it’s been a down year for Don Roth--pleading guilty to political ethics violations, forced to resign as county supervisor--but here’s a bright spot for him: The annual Don Roth Golf Classic of the past five years will continue June 21 at the Anaheim Hills golf course. It benefits the Western Youth Services group. . . . Organizer Jerry Le Mar explains: “Don’s been a great friend to Western, and I don’t believe in kicking a guy when he’s down. He was surprised but pleased when we asked him to stay with it.”

MOTEL 6 MORROW: Freshman Assemblyman Bill Morrow, who represents South Orange County, is out to prove he didn’t seek the job for the money. He’s vowed to give up to charity $600 of his $700 weekly living allowance--keeping just expense money--for however long it takes past the June 15 constitutional deadline to get a state budget approved. “I thought last year’s gridlock was an absolute shame,” he says. . . . Morrow may be one of the few who can live in Sacramento on $100 a week: He stays at a Motel 6.

BY DESIGN? The almost-all-men’s club of the California Building Industry Foundation Hall of Fame gets its second female member--and its first non-builder--when Santa Ana interior designer Carole Eichen is inducted in San Francisco Wednesday (D7). . . . “I hope it’s not that they are running out of builders,” quipped Eichen. She was the first to make interior design part of a home builder’s overall marketing plan.

AMERICA FIRST? Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) recently returned from a four-day trip to Vietnam as part of a POW-MIA congressional delegation. . . . “The Vietnamese people are very anxious to have good relations with the Americans,” he reports. “They have seen enough Russians there to know they like Americans better.” But first, Rohrabacher says, Hanoi must answer all MIA questions and free its political prisoners: “Maybe then we can talk about good things like surfing, or doing business together.”