FRIENDS REMEMBERED: It’s been 51 years since...

FRIENDS REMEMBERED: It’s been 51 years since Roger C. Crow of Irvine bombed a Japanese attack carrier and shot down five planes. But every Veterans Day, the World War II Navy dive bomber flier remembers friends who didn’t make it back. Some had given him letters to deliver to loved ones, just in case. Crow says the most vivid memories of his 74 years “are crowded into three months of intense hell in that war.” . . . . Crow has been chosen to lay a special wreath at ceremonies today at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Hollywood Hills.

CELL-TALK: New regulations require that freeway emergency boxes be accessible to the disabled. But the County Transportation Authority is seeking a law that would instead provide the disabled with cellular pocket phones that automatically dial 911. . . . Officials say it would spare people in wheelchairs having to amble along freeways. Says Greg Winterbottom of the transportation body, himself disabled: “I think it’s a great idea.”

NORTH IT IS: The top federal prosecutor in Orange County is on his way up and out--to Sacramento. Paul L. Seave, who has overseen 10 lawyers as the assistant U.S. attorney in charge of the Santa Ana office for the past four years, will leave in two weeks to become the No. 2 person in the Sacramento district. No replacement has been named yet. . . . Seave says he’s excited about the chance to take on some political corruption cases in the capital. And a bonus, he adds: a chance to get out of Southern California traffic.

BUZZING JAY: She was a scene-stealer in the hit Blind Melon music video “No Rain,” and at this year’s MTV awards. In both, 10-year-old Heather DeLoach of Lake Forest was the tap-dancing “Bee Girl.” Tonight, she’ll match wits with Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show.” (Channel 4, 11:30.) Big things are happening for Heather: She just finished a Nick Nolte movie and soon will be a regular on ABC’s Tuesday night sitcom “Phenom.”