[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 140 (Thursday, July 22, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 43848]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-16685]



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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 August 16, 2004.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (Cindy C. West, Banking 
Supervisor) 1455 East Sixth Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44101-2566:
    1. F.N.B. Corporation, Hermitage, Pennsylvania; to merge with 
Slippery Rock Financial Corporation, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, and 
thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of First National Bank of 
Slippery Rock, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Randall C. Sumner, Vice 
President) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-2034:
    1. Century Bancshares, Inc., Gainesville, Missouri; to acquire 
additional shares, for a total of approximately 24 percent, of Ozarks 
Heritage Financial Group, Inc., Gainesville, Missouri, and thereby 
retain ownership of Legacy Bank & Trust Company, Plato, Missouri.
    2. Ozarks Heritage Financial Group, Inc., and Century Bancshares, 
Inc., both of Gainesville, Missouri; to acquire 100 percent of The 
Citizens Bank of Sparta, Sparta, Missouri.
    3. Liberty Bancshares, Inc., Jonesboro, Arkansas; to acquire 80 
percent of the voting shares of Arkansas State Bancshares, Inc., Siloam 
Springs, Arkansas, and thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of 
Arkansas State Bank, Siloam Springs, Arkansas.
    4. Russellville Bancshares, Inc., Jonesboro, Arkansas; to acquire 
20 percent of the voting shares of Arkansas State Bancshares, Inc., 
Siloam Springs, Arkansas, and thereby indirectly acquire voting shares 
of Arkansas State Bank, Siloam Springs, Arkansas.
    5. Progress Acquisition, Inc., Sullivan, Missouri; to become a bank 
holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Progress Bancshares, Inc., Sullivan, Missouri, and thereby indirectly 
acquire Progress Bank of Missouri, Sullivan, Missouri, and Tritten 
Bancshares, Inc., Waynesville, Missouri, and its subsidiary of First 
State Bank of St. Robert, St. Robert, Missouri.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Donna J. Ward, Assistant 
Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 64198-0001:
    UCSB Financial Corporation, Fort Wayne, Indiana; to become a bank 
holding company by acquiring up to 79 percent of the voting shares of 
Uinta County State Bank, Mountain View, Wyoming.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, July 16, 2004.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 04-16685 Filed 7-21-04; 8:45 am]
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