European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday december 23, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 7water company touts taste of the tap new Haven Conn. A tired of hearing bottled water companies boast about the superiority of their products the local water authority is offering Consumers containers for its Humble and cheaper beverage. Two weeks ago the authority began doling out free 48-ounce bottles for tap water. The response from Consumers has been phenomenal. A in the rain and the Snow people Are coming in for these bottles a said Thomas Jackson spokesman for the South Central Connecticut regional water authority. More than 2,000 bottles have been picked up at the authority a Headquarters. That prompted the authority to double its own bottle order so it will have at least 10,000 to give away. To have Good tasting water you done to have to buy water from Maine or another country Jackson said. Or As the authority said in a Tongue in Cheek promotion a you done to have to have water from Poland Pond or  a this is basically a proactive strike against people who sell bottled water and say tap water Isnit tasty a Jackson said. Even water with chlorine makes a Good drink if it is chilled the authority said. Bottled water can Cost 400 times As much As the same amount of tap water the authority said. A sketch of one of its reservoirs. Lake Gaillard in the suburb of North Branford appears on the front of the Clear Glass bottle along with the slogan a bottle your  authority spokesmen said the Label May help explain Why people have pursued free bottles rather than simply use an empty beverage Container they already have at  teacher on a Roll with soviet Board game by Kelly p. Kissel the associated press Smethport a. A psst. Wanna a Good Deal on the Kremlin for a few million rubles its yours. Kab Headquarters the Bolshoi theatre and Gorki Park Are available too. Those landmarks of the crumbling soviet onion and More will be yours for the right Price in a Moscow auction a a Board game invented by Ross Porter a High school teacher and auctioneer. An educational tool he researched More than a year ago turned out to be prophetic. A i Wasny to doing research to do a game to sell i was doing research to do a game for my students a said Porter who teaches political science world history and geography at Smethport area High school about 10 Miles South of the new York state line in North Central Pennsylvania. A the game went on the Assumption that the communist government would fail a Porter said. His Hunch was right on the Ruble. The games genesis was porters trip to the soviet Union in 1990 with some students. He found the government then a a House of cards a he said. Seeking to illustrate what might happen he developed the game. His students were playing the game by March this year. A sometime by the end of the month a Porter said a it was so popular from a game Point of View that i decided to produce  the game retails for $28.50 and is for Sale in East coast College bookstores and by mail order from porters Home. He Hopes to find a distributor next year. The Kremlin dominates the Center of the 19-by-19-Inch game Board encircled by Headquarters of the Tass news Agency St. Basilus Cathedral and the gum department store. The outer ring has Kab Headquarters an Airport and the fanciful capitalism cafe a decorated with a c resembling half the Mcdonald Sarch. The game pieces include a White air plane and a red car. Players rotate roles As capitalist and Kab agents. Capitalist bidders move around the Board by the air plane. If Kab agents travelling by car or subway arrive at the auction before it ends the spy Agency gets the a Pennsylvania history teacher created a Board game that remarkably paralleled developments in the soviet Union. Commission. Escape cards can save commissions. Black Market items Are the wild cards. One card reads a visit a Lenin Monument. Lose a turn for being a  another says a you Are chased by a Butcher for taking photos of food lines. Sell photos to us Magazine for 2 million  one depicting russian president Boris n. Yeltsin on a military tank during the failed August coup attempt says a stand up for democracy. Earn 2 extra turns amp the leadership of the russian  the game logo is a Takeoff on the Hammer and sickle with an auctioneers Gavel crossing a broken sickle Blade. Key phrases arc in both English and russian but one phrase on the games logo and on All the property cards is in russian Only. A it was the translators Choice of words a Porter said. A the party a Over. The party a  which is the games objective. Other water source sought for . Towns hit by spill Enoree . Up thousands of Gallons of fuel Oil spilled into a River from a broken pipeline tainting drinking water supplies in two towns and forcing authorities to seek alternate sources officials said sunday. About 420,000 Gallons of Oil from a colonial pipeline co. Line spilled into a tributary of the Enoree River on thursday in Greenville county. The spill prompted a round the clock Effort to connect the cities of Clinton and Whitmire to alternative water sources said Thom Berry spokesman for the South Carolina department of health and environmental control. Containment booms surrounded the break site near the town of Fountain inn. Company cleanup Crews had collected about 470,000 Gallons of water and Oil by sunday Berry said. A Sheen of Oil was however creeping Down the Enoree River primary source of drinking water for about 12,000 people at Clinton 26 Miles downstream and Whitmire 46 Miles Distant. A a there a not a lot that can be done to collect the Sheen because it is very thin very spread out a Berry said. Clinton which installed permanent Back up lines after two similar accidents in 1979, immediately transferred to an alternative water source pumping water from another Creek. About 100 volunteers in Whitmire worked round the clock for two Days to install More than 6,500 feet of above ground pipe to pump water from a nearby Creek mayor lice Bledsoe said. There were no evacuations and no interruption in water service but the pipes blocked roads and created traffic problems for Whitmire. Raccoons bizarre behaviour driving town officials Batty Napoleon Ohio up a rather Odd group of raccoons is invading an Ohio town staggering around in the Middle of the Day and doing strange things like somersaults. A they Are not Well animals a remarked Hans schmalzried the health administrator of Henry county. Schmalzried said 55 of the furry masked critters of the night have been captured in the Northwestern Ohio town of Napoleon lately a an unusually High number. A there Are raccoons All Over town a schmalzried said. A a they re very passive apparently not caring about anything. They even stagger. One was a urn ing somersaults in a window ledge. A a they re typically nocturnal Ani Mals but these Are walking around during the Day a schmalzried said. He said two people have been bitten and one was scratched. A the one that scratched a Guy fell out of a tree onto his shoulder. Another walked into a House and crawled under a Christmas  the raccoons have been tested for rabies but results so far Are negative. But at least one animal tested positive for distemper an infectious viral disease that chiefly affects dogs. The health department is warning residents to stay away from the animals. Schmalzried said the raccoons Odd behaviour suggests they May All suffer from distemper