[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 214 (Monday, November 5, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 55941]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-27660]


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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 November 28, 2001.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Phillip Jackson, Applications 
Officer) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
    1. Independence Bancshares, Inc., Independence, Iowa; to acquire 
100 percent of the voting shares of Fairbank Bancshares, Inc., 
Fairbank, Iowa, and thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of 
Fairbank State Bank, Fairbank, Iowa.
    2. Malvern Bancshares, Inc., Malvern, Iowa; to become a bank 
holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Malvern Trust & Savings Bank, Malvern, Iowa.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Susan Zubradt, Assistant 
Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 64198-0001:
    1. Plainville Bancshares, Inc., Plainville, Kansas; to acquire 100 
percent of the voting shares of Farmers Bancshares, Inc., Lincoln, 
Kansas, and thereby indirectly acquire Farmers National Bank, Lincoln, 
Kansas, and Beverly State Bank, Beverly, Kansas.
    2. West Point Bancorp, Inc., West Point, Nebraska; to acquire 100 
percent of the voting shares of Town & Country Bank, Las Vegas, Nevada.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (W. Arthur Tribble, Vice 
President) 2200 North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201-2272:
    1. McLaughlin Bancshares, Inc., Ralls, Texas, and McLaughlin 
Delaware Bancshares, Inc.,Dover, Delaware; to acquire 100 percent of 
the voting shares of First Hale Center, Inc., Hale Center, Texas, and 
thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of FNB West Texas, Plainview, 
Texas.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, October 30, 
2001.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 01-27660 Filed 11-2-01; 8:45 am]
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