PRESIDENTIAL VIEWS: Jack Kemp was here this...

PRESIDENTIAL VIEWS: Jack Kemp was here this week for the solemn occasion of the Richard Nixon funeral. But he was available for politicking too. Kemp, a strong contender for the GOP presidential nomination in 1996, appeared on Supervisor Roger R. Stanton’s cable talk show--to first air on Saturday. . . . Kemp’s thoughts on President Clinton’s health care plans: “He has his right-turn signal on, but he’s turning left.” And on Nixon: A great leader, but “he was flawed in his approach to his enemies.”

DYNAMITE MURDER CASE: It was the most notorious murder trial of 1947: 18-year-old Beulah Louise Overell (now deceased) and her fiance George Gollum, 21, were acquitted in the murders of her Newport Beach parents. . . . Prosecutors alleged they covered up the murders by dynamiting the victims’ yacht. Now international photographer Lewis Baltz, who grew up in Newport Beach, has written “The Deaths in Newport,” an illustrated book about the trial. The book will be published next month in France, with a text in English and French.

DOLLAR DIALING: Gov. Pete Wilson may be behind in the polls, but he still has many friends in Orange County. Christine Diemer, executive director of the Building Industry Assn., has put together one of the year’s largest private-home fund-raisers for Wilson next week--40 people at $1,000 each, plus similar donations from 10 who can’t make it. . . . Says Diemer: “To me, there is just no question that something is different (with the economy); there’s more discretionary money.”

POSITIVE JOE: Dodgers Quiz: They had the elite pitching staff of the 1960s with starters like Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, Bill Singer and Don Sutton--but who was the fifth starter?. . . . For part of those years it was Joe Moeller, who is still associated with the Dodgers. . . . Today he’s at the Orange YMCA’s fifth annual “Public Awareness” luncheon at Chapman University. He’ll talk about positive ways local leaders can help young people.