European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday March 18, 1990 the stars and stripes a Page 5ferr., �?T62, driven hard $14 Mill. A Malcolm Barber a car expert for soothe by a the inter Competition to in Bridgehampton n.y., last week National auction House inspects a 1962 Ferrari 250 the landmark racing car will be auctioned by soothe by a in Monte Carlo on May 21, where it is expected to fetch Between $11 million and $14 million. Down Here to is no rare Blessing to be Irish yall do Dtra u 4h/vnci/\ikt. M by Rick Hampson associated press writer saturday was just another Day in Lafayette county fla., the nations most Irish county. The county seat is named Mayo but there was no St. Patrick a Day Parade no Green line painted Down main Street no Green Beer at the hideaway tavern no St. Paths Day cards at West a drugs no corned beef and cabbage at the Mayo cafe and no shamrocks. A few folks wore the Green but Only because a they heard about it on television according to Emmett Howell a local historian. Residents in fact were surprised to learn that in the last . Census 17.7 percent of Lafayette a 4,035 residents declared Irish ancestry the highest percentage of any county in the United states. They weren to the Only ones. 1 was shocked until i found out what happened there a said James Allen a Tal Lornia state University professor who spent seven years studying the Cen sus data. In their eight Pound demographic Atlas a we the people a Allen and fellow geographer Eugene Turner explain that Lafayette a Insh descend not from roman catholics who left Ireland after the famine in the Middle of the 19th Century but from protestants who migrated years earlier. These immigrants traced their own roots Back to Scotland which their ancestors left in the 1600s to colonize northeastern Ireland. But Many moved on to America where they led the first wave of trans appalachian settlement. Most of the counties with the highest percentage of Irish ancestry in the 1980 census were in Rural and Small town sections of the Southeast the area where the scotch Irish settled and which now has More than a third of the american Irish. Smith miss., is the nation s third most Irish county and Houston tenn., is fifth. Numbers two and four Are nor supreme court May decide constitutionality of Flag Law Folk and Suffolk counties in and around Boston whose Irish Are typically Catholic and More Likely to have descended from Post famine immigrants. The scotch Irish whose descendants account for about half of the 40 million americans of Irish descent a have retained a sense albeit a weak one of an Irish heritage a according to Allen. With Only two traffic lights a one a Mere blinking caution signal a and a population of about 1,000, Mayo would be hard pressed to celebrate St. Paths Day in style even if it wanted to. Which it did no to. At West drugs Harriet West said she used to Stock St. Patrick a Day cards but it Wasny to Worth her while. A did no to sell More none or two a she explained. At the Mayo cafe Thelma Driver said there was no corned beef and cabbage on saturdays menu because St. Paths a is not a real big Deal  if there was any real Irish spirit in town surely it would be found at an is Sands of time Stablish mint called the hideaway tavern run by a Man named Sullivan. A is what a big Day Quot Lewin Sullivan asked during a Telephone interview. St. Patrick a Day. A not particularly a he said drawing the word out in his Panhandle drawl. A most of pm done to Ever think of  Well you re Irish right a i figure i must be from the name but How much i done to  it seemed there could be no less Irish place than the most Irish county in America other than one of the least Irish counties in America. In Morgan county Utah Only about 32 of 4,917 residents claimed Irish ancestry 10 years ago. People there mostly mormons of English descent were As Une cited about St. Patrick a Day As Lafayette residents. A a in be never heard anyone boast of being Irish a said Linda Smith Secretary of the county historical society. A it just Isnit  Washington a _ the sue if Urt on Friday raised the pos Sibil it a Quot i anj1.ounce by Early summer the Crimo a 1? a new a making it a an to bum the american Flag. Partially granted a Bush and at inn in ,e9uest for speedy consider thewl n Law ordering challengers of it w to file Legal beefs by March 26. The Nils wait until they receive Tion in n a r0fj taking any further a Over Tom air administration appeals to in Consort a wer court rulings that the Law a i i. Navy stifles free speech. Sidcot  department and pre the aws a Aye expressed doubts about lion Filpot inns a a Tyr adm Nistra lion Quot led Legal papers i ing the court to uphold the statute. Conviction under the Law carries a maximum one year jail sentence. The department urged the High court to overturn rulings by two Federal judges Here and in Seattle who declared the Taw unconstitutional. The Justice department acknowledged that Bush allowed the Law to be enacted oct. 28 without his signature because he questions its constitutionality and prefers a constitutional amendment to assure the same Protection for the Flag. Bush said he has a serious doubts the Law can withstand supreme court review and said a a constitutional amendment is the Only Way to ensure that our Flag is protected from  the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. March 18, 1950 a defense Secretary Louis a. Johnson said . Scientists were developing terrible new weapons of War that could make All others obsolete.30 years ago today. March 18, 1960 a the Western Powers at the 10-nation disarmament conference in Geneva Switzerland proposed that All nations would have to give prior notification of any test flights of missies.20 years ago today. 18, 1970 the army announced that maj. Gen. Samuel w. Koster West Point superintendent and 13 other officers had been charged with dereliction of duty and other offences arising from their alleged involvement in the my Lai massacre in South Vietnam. Y10 years ago today. March 18, 1980 a a . Navy amphibious warfare Force carrying 1,800 a ships Ente Indian Ocean raising american naval strength there to a record 31