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<LEGEND>
         This schedule contains summary financial information extracted from the
registrant's  unaudited  consolidated  financial statements for the three months
ended March 31, 1998 and is  qualified  in its  entirety  by  reference  to such
statements.
</LEGEND>
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<NAME>                        Union Community Bancorp
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