[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 101 (Tuesday, May 27, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28703-28704]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-13785]


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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

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indicated or the offices of the Board of Governors not later than June 
20, 1997.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Randall C. Sumner, Vice 
President) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63102-2034:
    1. Gideon Bancshares Company, Dexter, Missouri; to acquire 92 
percent of the voting shares of First Midwest Bank of Chaffee, Chaffee, 
Missouri.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (D. Michael Manies, 
Assistant Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 
64198-0001:
    1. Security Bancshares, Inc., Scott City, Kansas; to acquire 9.5 
percent of the voting shares of Intra Financial Corporation, Clyde, 
Kansas; and thereby indirectly acquire Exchange Bank of Clyde, Clyde, 
Kansas; Farmers State Bancshares of Sabetha, Inc., Sabetha, Kansas; and 
its subsidiary, Farmers State Bank, Sabetha, Kansas; and Peoples 
Bancorp of Belleville, Inc., Belleville, Kansas, and its subsidiary, 
Peoples Bank of Belleville, Belleville, Kansas.
    2. Intra Financial Corporation, Clyde, Kansas; to acquire 100 
percent of the voting shares of Peoples Bancorp of Belleville, Inc., 
Belleville, Kansas, and thereby indirectly acquire Peoples Bank of 
Belleville, Belleville, Kansas.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, May 21, 1997.
Jennifer J. Johnson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 97-13785 Filed 5-23-97; 8:45 am]
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