100 BY TWOS: Barring any broken appendages,...

100 BY TWOS: Barring any broken appendages, Angel sluggers Tim Salmon and Chili Davis should easily reach 100 runs batted in this season. Both had 71 after Tuesday’s game. The last time any Angel had 100 RBIs was six years ago, when Wally Joyner had 117. . . . Only once have the Angels ever had a season where more than one player hit that century mark. It was 1979, when the Halos won their first division title: Don Baylor led the league with 139 RBIs, and Dan Ford and Bobby Grich had 101 each.

STRIKE A POSE: The foyer at Dana Point City Hall is lined with smiling portraits of its City Council members. All, that is, except Councilman William L. Ossenmacher. He prefers no pomp, under the circumstances. . . . “Some people in public office get caught up in wanting parks named after them, or monuments,” he says. “This is a smaller version of that sort of thing. I see us as public servants.”

ONE REGRET: For 15 years, public health director Dr. L. Rex Ehling has been one of the county’s most respected department heads. So no surprise that, when supervisors honored him this week as he departs to take a statewide health job, Ehling received a standing ovation. . . . The forthright Ehling later recalled mostly fond memories of the job, but mentioned one regret, the AIDS crisis: “I wish we could have encouraged (county leaders) to step up to the bat a little sooner. We could have moved faster, but, on the other hand, the state moved even slower.”

PATRIOTIC PUSH: Stanton businessman Rick Muth wants to turn this Labor Day into “Try American Day.” His “USA Owned, USA Made” trade advocacy group wants everyone to buy quality “American goods and services” that day. . . . A few cities have already adopted his resolution. More important, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole has introduced it on Capitol Hill with these words: “American workers are one of our nation’s most valuable resources.”