[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 214 (Wednesday, November 5, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 59871]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-29285]


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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. Unless otherwise noted, nonbanking 
activities will be conducted throughout the United States.
    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 December 1, 1997.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (A. Linwood Gill III, Assistant 
Vice President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:
    1. Commercial BancShares, Incorporated, Parkersburg, West Virginia; 
to merge with Gateway Bancshares, Inc., McMechen, West Virginia, and 
thereby indirectly acquire The Bank of McMechen, McMechen, West 
Virginia.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Randall C. Sumner, Vice 
President) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63102-2034:
    1. Independent Southern Bancshares, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership 
Trust, Brownsville, Tennessee; to acquire up to 35 percent of the 
voting shares of Independent Southern Bancshares, Inc., Brownsville, 
Tennessee, and thereby indirectly acquire Brownsville Bank, 
Brownsville, Tennessee, Bank of Commerce, Trenton, Tennessee, Tennessee 
Bank and Trust, Memphis, Tennessee, and Union Savings Bank, Covington, 
Tennessee.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (Genie D. Short, Vice President) 
2200 North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201-2272:
    1. Woodforest Bancshares, Inc., Houston, Texas, and Sun Belt 
Bancshares, Corporation, Wilmington, Delaware; to acquire 35 percent of 
the voting shares of Main Street National Bank, Cleveland, Texas.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, October 31, 
1997.
Jennifer J. Johnson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 97-29285 Filed 11-4-97; 8:45 am]
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