[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 108 (Monday, June 5, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35642-35643]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-13900]


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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

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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 June 29, 2000.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Phillip Jackson, Applications 
Officer) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
    1. Mahaska Investment Company ESOP, Oskaloosa, Iowa; to acquire an 
additional 2.29 percent, for a total of 13.87 percent in aggregate, of 
the voting shares of Mahaska Investment Company, Oskaloosa, Iowa, and 
thereby indirectly acquire additional voting shares of Mahaska State 
Bank, Oskaloosa, Iowa; Pella State Bank, Pella, Iowa; Central Valley 
Bank, Ottumwa, Iowa; and Midwest Federal Savings & Loan of Eastern 
Iowa, Burlington, Iowa.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (JoAnne F. Lewellen, 
Assistant Vice President) 90 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 
55480-0291:
    1. F & M Financial Services, Inc., Preston, Minnesota; to acquire 
100 percent of the voting shares of F & M Community Bank, N. A., 
Chatfield, Minnesota, a de novo bank.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (D. Michael Manies, 
Assistant Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 
64198-0001:
    1. JTB Bancshares, Inc., Mission Hills, Kansas; to become a bank 
holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Whiting Bankshares, Inc., Whiting, Kansas, and thereby indirectly 
acquire The State Bank of Whiting, Whiting, Kansas.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, May 30, 2000.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 00-13900 Filed 6-2-00; 8:45 am]
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