[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 14 (Friday, January 22, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 3518]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-1492]


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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM


Change in Bank Control Notices; Acquisitions of Shares of Banks 
or Bank Holding Companies

    The notificants listed below have applied under the Change in Bank 
Control Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and Sec.  225.41 of the Board's 
Regulation Y (12 CFR 225.41) to acquire a bank or bank holding company. 
The factors that are considered in acting on the notices are set forth 
in paragraph 7 of the Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)).
    The notices are available for immediate inspection at the Federal 
Reserve Bank indicated. The notices also will be available for 
inspection at the offices of the Board of Governors. Interested persons 
may express their views in writing to the Reserve Bank indicated for 
that notice or to the offices of the Board of Governors. Comments must 
be received not later than February 8, 1999.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Randall C. Sumner, Vice 
President) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63102-2034:
    1. The Blanchard Family Group, Russellville, Arkansas; to acquire 
voting shares of Clement Bancshares, Inc., Plainview, Arkansas, and 
thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of First State Bank, 
Plainview, Arkansas.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (D. Michael Manies, 
Assistant Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 
64198-0001:
    1. Bert D. Backard, Independence, Kansas; to acquire voting shares 
of First Howard Bankshares, Inc., Cherryvale, Kansas, and thereby 
indirectly acquire voting shares of First National Bank of Howard, 
Howard, Kansas, First Security Bankshares, Inc., Topeka, Kansas, I and 
B, Inc., Cherryvale, Kansas, and Peoples State Bank, Cherryvale, 
Kansas.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, January 19, 
1999.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 99-1492 Filed 1-21-99; 8:45 am]
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