Article: NATIONAL BANK OF FREDERICK FAILS; REOPENS AS BRANCH/OF FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF FREDERICK

National Bank of Frederick, one of two national banks in this southwestern Oklahoma town of 6,500 people, was declared insolvent and closed at 3 p.m. Thursday by the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency.

Frederick's other bank, First National Bank & Trust Co., which is more than twice the size of the failed bank, agreed to accept the transfer of the insured deposits of the National Bank of Frederick, according to Oklahoma Banking Commissioner Robert Y. Empie.

The failed bank's building will reopen today as a branch of the First National Bank & Trust Co. of Frederick, he said.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which was named receiver for the insolvent National Bank of Frederick, ...

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