[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 54 (Tuesday, March 20, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 15719]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-6780]


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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 (12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise noted, 
nonbanking activities will be conducted throughout the United States. 
Additional information on all bank holding companies may be obtained 
from the National Information Center website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.
    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 April 13, 2001.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (A. Linwood Gill, III, Vice 
President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:
    1. Carolina Financial Corporation, Charleston, South Carolina; to 
acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of Crescent Bank, Myrtle 
Beach, South Carolina.
    2. Waccamaw Bankshares, Inc., Whiteville, North Carolina; to become 
a bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Waccamaw Bank, Whiteville, North Carolina.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (JoAnne F. Lewellen, 
Assistant Vice President) 90 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 
55480-0291:
    1. Glacier Bancorp, Inc., Kalispell, Montana; to acquire 100 
percent of the voting shares of Western Security Bank, Billings, 
Montana, a de novo bank.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (W. Arthur Tribble, Vice 
President) 2200 North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201-2272:
    1. Community Bank Holdings of Texas, Inc., Corsicana, Texas, and 
Corsicana Holdings, Inc., Dover, Delaware; to merge with Eagle 
Bancshares, Inc., Fairfield, Texas, and thereby indirectly acquire 
voting shares of Fairfield Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware; First 
National Bank, Fairfield, Texas; and Texas Bank, S.S.B., Buffalo, 
Texas.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, March 14, 
2001.
Robert deV. Frierson
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 01-6780 Filed 3-19-00; 8:45 am]
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