[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 91 (Monday, May 12, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 25953]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-12274]


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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM


Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding 
Companies

    The companies listed in this notice have applied to the Board for 
approval, pursuant to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 
1841 et seq.) (BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part 225), and all other 
applicable statutes and regulations to become a bank holding company 
and/or to acquire the assets or the ownership of, control of, or the 
power to vote shares of a bank or bank holding company and all of the 
banks and nonbanking companies owned by the bank holding company, 
including the companies listed below.
    The applications listed below, as well as other related filings 
required by the Board, are available for immediate inspection at the 
Federal Reserve Bank indicated. Once the application has been accepted 
for processing, it will also be available for inspection at the offices 
of the Board of Governors. Interested persons may express their views 
in writing on the standards enumerated in the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 
1842(c)). If the proposal also involves the acquisition of a nonbanking 
company, the review also includes whether the acquisition of the 
nonbanking company complies with the standards in section 4 of the BHC 
Act. Unless otherwise noted, nonbanking activities will be conducted 
throughout the United States.
    Unless otherwise noted, comments regarding each of these 
applications must be received at the Reserve Bank indicated or the 
offices of the Board of Governors not later than June 2, 1997.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (A. Linwood Gill, III Assistant 
Vice President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:
    1. Community Bankshares Incorporated, Petersburg, Virginia; to 
acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of County Bank of 
Chesterfield, Midlothian, Virginia.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Randall C. Sumner, Vice 
President) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63102-2034:
    1. Trustcorp Financial, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri; to become a bank 
holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Missouri State Bank and Trust Company, St. Louis, Missouri.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (D. Michael Manies, 
Assistant Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 
64198-0001:
    1. The Farmers State Bank of Fort Morgan, ESOP, Fort Morgan, 
Colorado; to acquire an additional 7.91 percent, for a total of 33.09 
percent, of the voting shares of FSB Bancorporation, Inc., Fort Morgan, 
Colorado, and thereby indirectly acquire Farmers State Bank, Fort 
Morgan, Colorado.
    2. Lauritzen Corporation, Omaha, Nebraska; to acquire 3.68 percent, 
for a total of 24.9 percent, of the voting shares of First National of 
Nebraska, Inc., Omaha, Nebraska, and thereby indirectly acquire First 
National Bank of Kansas, Overland Park, Kansas; First National Bank and 
Trust Company, Columbus, Nebraska; Fremont National Bank, Fremont, 
Nebraska; Platte Valley State Bank, Kearney, Nebraska; First National 
Bank, North Platte, Nebraska; and First National Bank of Omaha, Omaha, 
Nebraska.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, May 5, 1997.
Jennifer J. Johnson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 97-12274 Filed 5-9-97; 8:45 am]
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