RAWHIDE COMIN’: Costa Mesa is urban territory,...

RAWHIDE COMIN’: Costa Mesa is urban territory, so the City Council is apprehensive about permitting a cattle drive there on July 15--to kick off the County Fair. “I’m your basic child of suburbia,” explains Mayor Sandra L. Genis. “Are cows noisy at night?”. . . Council members approved it this week, after fairgrounds officials assured them the 250 cows--to be housed for the night in a field at Costa Mesa High School, three blocks away--will be well-behaved. Says a fair official: “We are choosing these cattle very carefully.”

SOMETHING FISHY? Beginning March 1, you’d better make sure the game warden can see your license when you’re fishing. The state Fish and Game Commission made that decision Tuesday. And a lot of Orange County anglers aren’t happy about it. . . . A survey of local bait shops shows many fishermen see it as an infringement. Especially those who don’t have a license. But, says Dale Hightower of a Fullerton tackle shop: “It’s a good way to keep everyone honest.”

REUNION TIME: Richard Nixon will be at his presidential library in Yorba Linda on Jan. 20. That’s the 25th anniversary of his first inauguration, back when Watergate was only known as a hotel/business complex. So Nixon’s bringing a host of people who served with him. . . . Included: former President Gerald R. Ford, above, Henry A. Kissinger, and a dozen members from his cabinet. . . . Nixon, who will be 81 on Sunday, is expected to announce plans for a new policy center at the library.

EARLY NIXON: A mountain of Nixon pre-presidential papers will be unveiled at the library in March, dwarfing the collection now open to the public at the National Archives. . . . Although the archives in Laguna Beach have 845 boxes of documents and correspondence from the Nixon vice-presidential era, the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace will make 2,161 boxes and 19,000 photos available for inspection. Included will be campaign materials and correspondence with other world leaders.