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<LEGEND>
     (This schedule  contains summary financial  information  extracted from the
registrant's audited consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1997 and is qualified  in its  entirety by reference to such  financial
statements.)
</LEGEND>
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<NAME>                          Home Federal Bancorp                        
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