European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes saturday december 12,1967 Robins ordered to set up id suit fund Richmond in. Us l a Federal judge Friday ordered the . Rollins co. To it aside $2,5 billion to Sculle claims filed by Ponien Olio said Pilicy were injured by the company s Dalton shield Infra uterine contraceptive device. More than  Olf claims were filed against the pharmaceutical giant by women who said they were injured by he id. In the Wale of the lawsuits Rob ins in August i9s5 began reorganising under chapter 11 of the . Bankruptcy code. A omens advocacy groups had estimated thai As much As $7.2 billion would be needed to Settle the claims but Robins plan of reorganization had pro posed that the substantially smaller figure of $1.75 billion be Sci aside. In August rabins and rorer group inc. Signed a definitive merger agreement which required approval by the bankruptcy an. . Judge Robert mar High or. Had required Ilia the two companies As an import land part of the Overall reorganization work out a plan for settling the claims. Executives of Rubins and Rorr said they would work together la satisfy mar High s order on settling the claims by revising to Weir reorganization plans in Light of the court s estimation that $2.475 billion is sufficient to satisfy All Dalton shield claims both companies will work 10 re vice . Rubins plan of  . Robins spokesman Roscoe Puckett said we Are hopeful we can satisfy the court within the Lime period that will be  Puckall said he could not answer questions regard ing How much of the fund May be financed by Rorr. Although Robins was saddled with enormous costs stemming from the Dalton shield litigation it continues to produce Many Best Selling products including cough syrup lip Balm and a popular Over the counter cold remedy. Merhige ordered a thursday conference for establishing a deadline for the new plan of reorganization. We just need an Opportunity to sit Down and study in detail the court s ruling As the two executives said to revise the plan said puck to. They Are both Hope Ful the court can be satisfied within inc Lime spec  Kali air and its insurer have so far paid 3530 million on Dalton shield claims and tin1 company s plan of reorganization envisioned paying $1,75 billion More for claims alleging infertility and other serious injuries. Between 1970 and 1974, an estimated 4 million american women used the Dalton shield and Robins made $500.000 in profit on the device before pulling it off the Market. The. Company launched a global advertising Campaign after the firm began its reorganization attracting thousands of claims. Mar High eventually threw out about on shirt of the claims As invalid. If the proposed merger Between the two companies is completed the resulting entity will he the nation s sixth largest Over the counter pharmaceutical company. Rarer reported sales of $845 million last year and Robins which started As a Small apothecary in 1866 and has been controlled by family members for four generations reported sales ofj79d million in 1986. Miracle recovery paediatrics nurse Robert Young com forts 11-year-old Alvaro Garza Al St. Luke s Hospital in forgo . The youngster has been hospitalized since dec. 4, after falling through ice on the red finer and being pulled from the water with an 80-Degrec body tempera lure. Friday doctors Nufi noded his condition to fair and allowed him to sit up and eat solid Rood for the first time Index for finished goods held steady in november Washington up the government s producer Price Index for finished goods a Pivotal indicator of future consumer prices held steady in novem Ber after falling 0.2 percent in october the labor department said Friday. The Index adjusted for seasonal fac tors has not climbed More than 0.3 per cent on a Nionila to month basis since Trmal when it Rose 0.5 percent. Wholesale inflation Between novem Ber 1986 and last month was just 2.5 percent the department said. During that period consumer food prices climbed Only 0.6 percent but Energy prices rebounding front la Cir 1986 lows Rose 13.2 percent. Retail inflation has been running at a higher rate than wholesale Price rises largely because imported goods which have become More a pensive As inc Dol Lar has declined in value Are not crime in the Imbor department figures economists said. Undersecretary of Commerce Robert Ortner said the report indicates inflation is not accelerating despite concerns in the financial markets this fall and growth in the nation s Money Supply since the oct. 19 Stock Market meltdown. The inflation Wolf is not at the Doorstep Onner said. This report should go a Long Way to reducing fears of inflation s return breaking Down the november report consumer food prices climbed 0.3 per cent during inc month but were offset by a 0.2 percent drop in other finished con Sumer goods. The prices of durable goods designed to last three or More years fell 0.1 per cent while non durable goods costs dropped 0.2 percent intermediate goods those used by manufacturers to make finished products showed the largest Price increase in the government report up 0.4 percent during the month. This increase could be passed on to Consumers As those products reach the final stages of the manufacturing process said Robert do Crick chief economist for Northern Trust co. In Chicago. Whether it docs depends on whether the Economy continues to have its legs under it do Crick said. If the econ omy continues to be Strong we could see the Price pressure at the consumer level  if there is an economic slowdown however producers might Swallow he Price hikes to keep sates up he said. The sharpest Price decline in the no vember report occurred in crude goods which were 1.7 percent lower. Within this category the crude prices of food and livestock feed fell 3 percent. Tulsa based Church ordains Bakker As minister Tulsa okla. A former pal Leader Jim Bak scr has been ordained As a minister in a Tulsa based Church group and Wilt work with a pastor Al an affiliated Cli urch in Lancaster Calif officials said Friday i be known Jim for Over 20 years and this was not some flippant casual  said Doyle buddy har Rison president of Faith Christian Fellowship International. Wakker has told associates he was ordained four weeks ago by the charismatic Church group. Harrison said announcement of the ordination was delayed while Church Leader consulted with Church elders. The assemblies of god defrocked Bakker on May 6 after he left pal in March amid a pcs and Moncy scandal. Dark or and his top aides Are being investigated by a Federal grand jury for possible misuse of pal funds. Bakker s agent Jeff Franklin said the former evangelist has a lot of friends in the Faith Christian Church and has been close to it for 25 years. Franklin told the Charlotte . Observer that Bakker does t know when hell return to the pulpit. The Only thing he s doing right now is putting his life Back together Franklin said. Harrison said Bakker has made mistakes but he said the ordination was Someth i no spi  we Are not defending him and we Are no saying what he did was right Harrison said. We re not concerned about the natural Side. He s a Man who needs  Harrison said Bakker s responsibilities within Faith Christian will be determined Over a period of time. He said link scr could come to Tulsa to work or he could take Over his own congregation elsewhere. Nevada s ban on card cheating devices upheld Carson City nov. A Nevad a s ban on inc use of card cheating de vices was upheld by the stale supreme court in a ruling against a Man who wired his athletic supporter to a hidden microcomputer to improve his Odds of winning at Blackjack. The ruling thursday revived a charge of possessing a cheating device that had been filed against Philip Preston Ander son in Las vegas. Anderson had won a pretrial ruling from Clark county District judge Earle w. White or. That tin Law was unconstitutional. According to inc court Anderson strapped a microcomputer to his left calf. Wires ran to switches in his shoes that he could Lap with his Loes to keep track of the cards that had been played. The computer calculated Anderson s advantage or disadvantage with inc House and sent vibratory signals to a special receiver located inside an  Letic supporter inc supreme court said. The signal told Anderson whether to hit stand double Down or  the lower court had held that the prohibition on use of a device by Gambl ers was too vague. But the supreme court said the Law in t vague at least As applied to Anderson. Use of a hidden computer is precisely the Type of conduct envisioned by the statute the court said. While there May be circumstances when the term de vice is vague we Are not confronted with such a Case. Whatever else it May include the term certainly includes com