[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 207 (Tuesday, October 27, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57299-57300]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-28631]


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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 November 20, 1998.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (Michael E. Collins, Senior 
Vice President) 100 North 6th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19105-
1521:
    1. Harleysville National Corporation, Harleysville, Pennsylvania; 
to acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of, and thereby merge with 
Northern Lehigh Bancorp, Inc., Slatington, Pennsylvania, and thereby 
indirectly acquire Citizens National Bank of Slatington, Slatington, PA 
(Northern Lehigh Bancorp, Inc., Slatington, Pennsylvania).
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (A. Linwood Gill III,

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Assistant Vice President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 
23261-4528:
    1. Anchor Financial Corporation, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; to 
merge with Bailey Financial Corporation, Clinton, South Carolina, and 
thereby indirectly acquire The Saluda County Bank, Saluda, South 
Carolina, and M.S. Bailey & Son, Bankers, Clinton, South Carolina; and 
Rock Hill Bank & Trust, Rock Hill, South Carolina.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Philip Jackson, Applications 
Officer) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1413:
    1. FBOP Corporation, Oak Park, Illinois; to acquire 100 percent of 
the voting shares of Pullman Group, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, and 
thereby indirectly acquire Pullman Bank & Trust Company, Chicago, 
Illinois.
    D. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (W. Arthur Tribble, Vice 
President) 2200 North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201-2272:
    1. Nixon Bancshares, Inc., Nixon, Texas, and Nixon Delaware 
Bancshares, Inc., Dover, Delaware; to become bank holding companies by 
acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of Nixon State Bank, Nixon, 
Texas.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, October 21, 
1998.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 98-28631 Filed 10-26-98; 8:45 am]
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