[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 243 (Thursday, December 18, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66371-66372]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-33087]


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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. The application also will 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

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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 January 12, 1998.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (A. Linwood Gill III, Assistant 
Vice President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:
    1. Shore Financial Corporation, Onley, Virginia; to become a bank 
holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of Shore 
Bank, Onley, Virginia.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Randall C. Sumner, Vice 
President) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63102-2034:
    1. First United Bancshares, Inc., El Dorado, Arkansas; to merge 
with Citizens National Bancshares of Hope, Inc., Hope, Arkansas, and 
thereby indirectly acquire Citizens National Bank of Hope, Hope, 
Arkansas, and Peoples Bank and Loan Company, Lewisville, Arkansas.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (D. Michael Manies, 
Assistant Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 
64198-0001:
    1. FNB Financial Services, Inc. ESOP, Durant, Oklahoma; to acquire 
.3 percent of the voting shares of FNB Financial Services, Inc., 
Durant, Oklahoma, and thereby indirectly acquire The First National 
Bank in Durant, Durant, Oklahoma.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, December 15, 
1997.
Jennifer J. Johnson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 97-33087 Filed 12-17-97; 8:45 am]
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