9190 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 40 / Friday, February 28, 1997 / Notices

North Capitol Street, N.W., Room 962.

Interested parties may submit comments

on an agreement to the Secretary,

Federal Maritime Commission,

Washington, DC 20573, within 10 days

of the date this notice appears in the

Federal Register.

Agreement No.: 202–010689–064.

Title: Transpacific Westbound Rate

Agreement.

Parties: American President Lines,

Ltd.; Hapag-Lloyd Container Linie

GmbH; Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd.;

A.P. Moller-Maersk Line; Mitsui O.S.K.

Lines, Ltd.; P&O Nedlloyd B.V.; P&O

Nedlloyd Limited; Neptune Orient

Container Line, Inc.; Nippon Yusen

Kaisha, Ltd.; Orient Overseas Container

Lin, Inc.; Sea-Land Service, Inc.

Synopsis: The proposed amendment

would permit the parties to caucus and

reach informal consensual agreements

before or during the course of formal

Agreement meetings for the purpose of

reaching or presenting common

positions with regard to matters brought

up before the Agreement’s membership.

Agreement No.: 202–011456–020.

Title: South Europe American

Conference.

Parties: DSR-Senator Lines GmbH;

Evergreen Marine Corporation (Taiwan)

Ltd.; Italia di Navigazione, S.p.A.; A.P.

Moller-Maersk Line; P&O Nedlloyd

B.V.; P&O Nedlloyd Limited; Sea-Land

Service, Inc.; Zim Israel Navigation

Company, Ltd.; Contship Container

Lines Ltd.; Lykes Bros. Steamship Co.,

Inc.; Transportacion Maritima

Mexicana, S.A. de C.V.; Tecomar S.A.

de C.V.

Synopsis: The proposed amendment

would permit the parties to caucus and

reach informal consensual agreements

before or during the course of formal

Agreement meetings for the purpose of

reaching or presenting common

positions with regard to matters brought

up before the Agreement’s membership.

Agreement No.: 232–011567.

Title: Iceland Steamship/Samskip Slot

Charter Agreement.

Parties: Iceland Steamship Company

Ltd. (‘‘ISC’’); Samskip hf. (‘‘Samskip’’).

Synopsis: The proposed Agreement

would permit Samskip to charter space

aboard ISC’s vessels in the trade

between North Atlantic ports of the

United States and Reykjavik, Iceland.

The parties would also be permitted to

agree upon ISC’s schedule of port calls

in the Agreement trade.

Dated: February 25, 1997.

By order of the Federal Maritime

Commission.

Joseph C. Polking,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–5012 Filed 2–27–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6730–01–M

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

Change in Bank Control Notices;

Acquisitions of Shares of Banks or

Bank Holding Companies

The notificants listed below have

applied under the Change in Bank

Control Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and §

225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12

CFR 225.41) to acquire a bank or bank

holding company. The factors that are

considered in acting on the notices are

set forth in paragraph 7 of the Act (12

U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)).

The notices are available for

immediate inspection at the Federal

Reserve Bank indicated. Once the

notices have been accepted for

processing, they will also be available

for inspection at the offices of the Board

of Governors. Interested persons may

express their views in writing to the

Reserve Bank indicated for that notice

or to the offices of the Board of

Governors. Comments must be received

not later than March 14, 1997.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas

City (John E. Yorke, Senior Vice

President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas

City, Missouri 64198-0001:

1. Randall J. Hendricks, Elsie,

Nebraska, and Warren Orr, North Platte,

Nebraska; each to acquire an additional

26.92 percent, for a total of 50

percenteach, of the voting shares of

Elsie, Inc., Elsie, Nebraska, and thereby

indirectly acquire Commercial State

Bank, Elsie, Nebraska.

B. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

(Genie D. Short, Vice President) 2200

North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201-

2272:

1. Mary Lois Whittenburg Lockhart, as

Trustee of the Grace and Roy

Whittenburg Trusts, Amarillo, Texas; to

acquire an additional 63.51 percent, for

a total of 64.16 percent of the voting

shares of Amarillo Western Bancshares,

Inc., Amarillo, Texas, and thereby

indirectly acquire Western National

Bank, Amarillo, Texas.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, February 24, 1997.

Jennifer J. Johnson,

Deputy Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 97–4990 Filed 2-27-97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6210-01-F

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. Once the application has

been accepted for processing, it will also

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 March 24,

1997.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

(R. Chris Moore, Senior Vice President)

1455 East Sixth Street, Cleveland, Ohio

44101-2566:

1. CB Bancorp, Inc., Higginsport,

Ohio; to become a bank holding

company by acquiring 100 percent of

the voting shares of The Citizens Bank,

Higginsport, Ohio.

2. Commercial Bancshares Savings

and Employee Stock Ownership Plan,

West Liberty, Kentucky; to become a

bank holding company by acquiring 32

percent of the voting shares of

Commercial Bancshares, Inc., West

Liberty, Kentucky, and thereby

indirectly acquire Commercial Bank,

West Liberty, Kentucky.

B. Federal Reserve Bank of

Richmond (Lloyd W. Bostian, Jr., Senior

Vice President) 701 East Byrd Street,

Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:

1. Guaranty Financial Corporation,

Charlottesville, Virginia; to become a

bank holding company by acquiring 100

percent of the voting shares of Guaranty

Bank, Charlottesville, Virginia, the
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proposed successor by merger to

Guaranty Savings & Loan, F.A.,

Charlottesville, Virginia.

C. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

(Randall C. Sumner, Vice President) 411

Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63102-

2034:

1. Illinois Community Bank, Inc.,

Effingham, Illinois; to become a bank

holding company by acquiring 100

percent of the voting shares of Illinois

Community Bank, Effingham, Illinois,

which will convert from Guarantee

Savings Bank, FSB.

In connection with this Illinois

Community Bancorp, Effingham,

Illinois, has also applied to acquire

Illinois Leasing Corporation, Inc.,

Effingham, Illinois, and thereby engage

in leasing programs, pursuant to §

225.25 (b)(5)(i) ofthe Board’s Regulation

Y.

D. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

(Genie D. Short, Vice President) 2200

North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201-

2272:

1. Eden Financial Corporation, San

Angelo, Texas; to acquire 100 percent of

the voting shares of The First State Bank

of Rankin, Rankin, Texas.

E. Federal Reserve Bank of San

Francisco (Kenneth R. Binning,

Director, Bank Holding Company) 101

Market Street, San Francisco, California

94105-1579:

1. Castle Creek Capital Partners FundI, L.P., Castle Creek Capital, L.L.C., and

Eggemeyer Advisory Corporation, all of

San Diego, California; to acquire up to

14.9 percent of the voting shares of

Rancho Santa Fe National Bank, Rancho

Santa Fe, California, and up to 14.9

percent of the voting shares of First

Community Bank of Desert, Yucca

Valley, California.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

System, February 24, 1997.

Jennifer J. Johnson,

Deputy Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 97–4989 Filed 2-27-97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6210-01-F

Sunshine Act Meeting

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: Board of

Governors of the Federal Reserve

System.

TIME AND DATE: 10:00 a.m., Wednesday,

March 5, 1997.

PLACE: Marriner S. Eccles Federal

Reserve Board Building, C Street

entrance between 20th and 21st Streets,

N.W., Washington, D.C. 20551.

STATUS: Closed.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:

1. Personnel actions (appointments,

promotions, assignments, reassignments, and

salary actions) involving individual Federal

Reserve System employees.

2. Any items carried forward from a

previously announced meeting.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Mr. Joseph R. Coyne, Assistant to the

Board; (202) 452–3204. You may call

(202) 452–3207, beginning at

approximately 5 p.m. two business days

before this meeting, for a recorded

announcement of bank and bank

holding company applications

scheduled for the meeting.

Dated: February 26, 1997.

Jennifer J. Johnson,

Deputy Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 97–5121 Filed 2–26–97; 10:10 am]

BILLING CODE 6210–01–P

Sunshine Act Meeting

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: Board of

Governors of the Federal Reserve

System.

FEDERAL REGISTER CITATION OF PREVIOUS

ANNOUNCEMENT: 62 FR 8017, February

21, 1997.

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED TIME AND DATE OF

THE MEETING: 10:00 a.m., Wednesday,

February 26, 1997.

CHANGES IN THE MEETING: The open

meeting has been canceled.

1. The item regarding proposed

technical and clarifying amendments to

Regulation CC (Availability of Funds

and Collection of Checks) (proposed

earlier for public comment; Docket No.

R–0926) was handled via notation vote.

2. The item regarding proposals

concerning (a) guidelines for the use of

volume-based pricing for Federal

Reserve priced services and (b) volumebased fees for the automated clearing

house (ACH) service was deleted from

the meeting.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Mr. Joseph R. Coyne, Assistant to the

Board; (202) 452–3204.

Dated: February 26, 1997.

Jennifer J. Johnson,

Deputy Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 97–5148 Filed 2–26–97; 11:56 am]

BILLING CODE 6210–01–P

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

Granting of Request for Early

Termination of the Waiting Period

Under the Premerger Notification

Rules

Section 7A of the Clayton Act, 15

U.S.C. 18a, as added by Title II of the

Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust

Improvements Act of 1976, requires

persons contemplating certain mergers

or acquisitions to give the Federal Trade

Commission and the Assistant Attorney

General advance notice and to wait

designated periods before

consummation of such plans. Section

7A(b)(2) of the Act permits the agencies,

in individual cases, to terminate this

waiting period prior to its expiration

and requires that notice of this action be

published in the Federal Register.

The following transactions were

granted early termination of the waiting

period provided by law and the

premerger notification rules. The grants

were made by the Federal Trade

Commission and the Assistant Attorney

General for the Antitrust Division of the

Department of Justice. Neither agency

intends to take any action with respect

to these proposed acquisitions during

the applicable waiting period.

TRANSACTIONS GRANTED EARLY TERMINATION BETWEEN: 020397 AND 021497

Name of acquiring person, name of acquired person, name of acquired entity PMN No. Date terminated

KCSN Management, L.P., Tom E. Turner, Lone Star Growers Co., G.P ..................................................................... 97–0978 02/04/97

Cott Corporation, Mr. Stephen L. Hixon, Texas Beverage Packers, Inc ...................................................................... 97–0990 02/04/97

TCA Cable TV, Inc., Tele-Communications, Inc., East Arkansas Cablevision, Inc ...................................................... 97–1036 02/04/97

Fortis AMEV N.V., Stichting Administratiekantoor ABN AMRO Holding, MeesPierson N.V ........................................ 97–1044 02/04/97

Fortis AG S.A., Stichting Administratiekantoor ABN AMRO Holding, MeesPierson N.V .............................................. 97–1045 02/04/97

George G. Beasley, Greenwich Street Capital Partners, L.P., WWDB (FM) ................................................................ 97–1046 02/04/97

Avenor, Inc., Repap Enterprises, Inc., Repap Enterprises, Inc ..................................................................................... 97–1052 02/04/97

Selfcare, Inc., American Home Products Corporation, American Cyanamid Company; A.H. Robins Company, Inc .. 97–1054 02/04/97

Joseph M. Field, Deseret Management Corporation, Bonneville International Corporation ......................................... 97–1064 02/04/97

Deseret Management Corporation, Joseph M. Field, Entertainment Communications, Inc ......................................... 97–1065 02/04/97