[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 17 (Tuesday, January 27, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 3896]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-1823]


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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 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 February 20, 1998.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Randall C. Sumner, Vice 
President) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63102-2034:
    1. National City Bancshares, Inc., Evansville, Indiana; to merge 
with Vernois Bancshares, Inc., Mount Vernon, Illinois, and thereby 
indirectly acquire Bank of Illinois, Mount Vernon, Illinois. Comments 
regarding this application must be received by February 11, 1998.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Maria Villanueva, Manager 
of Analytical Support, Consumer Regulation Group) 101 Market Street, 
San Francisco, California 94105-1579:
    1. First Savings Bank of Washington Bancorp, Inc., Walla Walla, 
Washington; to merge with Towne Bancorp, Inc., Woodinville, Washington, 
and thereby indirectly acquire Towne Bank, Woodinville, Washington.
    2. J, J, & B Capital, L.P., Los Angeles, California; to become a 
bank holding company by acquiring 59.5 percent of the voting shares of 
Founders National Bank of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, January 21, 
1998.
Jennifer J. Johnson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 98-1823 Filed 1-26-98; 8:45 am]
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