[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 16 (Wednesday, January 26, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 3708]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-1429]


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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 February 21, 2005.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (Cindy C. West, Banking 
Supervisor) 1455 East Sixth Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44101-2566:
    1. Central Bancshares, Inc., Lexington, Kentucky; to acquire 100 
percent of the voting shares of First Bank, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky.
    2. Commodore Financial Network, Inc., Somerset, Ohio; to become a 
bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Commodore Bank, Somerset, Ohio.
    3. Hometown Bancorp, Inc., Kent, Ohio; to become a bank holding 
company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of Home Savings 
Bank, Kent, Ohio.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Patrick Wilder, Assistant Vice 
President) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
    1. Freedom Bancshares, Inc., Sheldon, Iowa; to become a bank 
holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Freedom Bank, Sheldon, Iowa (in organization).
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Randall C. Sumner, Vice 
President) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-2034:
    1. Southern Trust Bancshares, Inc., Goreville, Illinois; to become 
a bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
SouthernTrust Bank, Goreville, Illinois (in organization).
    D. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Donna J. Ward, Assistant 
Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 64198-0001:
    1. Frontier Management LLC, and Frontier Holdings, LLC, both of 
Madison, Nebraska; to become bank holding companies by acquiring 100 
percent of the voting shares of Bank of Madison, Madison, Nebraska.
    E. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Tracy Basinger, Director, 
Regional and Community Bank Group) 101 Market Street, San Francisco, 
California 94105-1579:
    1. Western Sierra Bancorp, Cameron Park, California; to acquire 100 
percent of the voting shares of Gold Country Financial Services, Inc., 
Marysville, California, and thereby indirectly acquire Gold County, 
N.A., Marysville, California.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, January 21, 
2005.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 05-1429 Filed 1-25-05; 8:45 am]
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