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iy Des Moines, Iowa Voi. 8 No. 47 March 17,1980 on both sides and see whether the pendulum has swung too far toward monopoly power for a few labor budget, but Lyndon Johnson was unions. vilified for a $25 billion deficit. A • The sixth area, improvement of balanced budget would require only productivity, is the one which could a 5% cut in the current half-trillion bring the country to a golden age in dollar budget. “ It can be done, and the 80s. Tax laws that penalize in it should be done,” Mr. Rukeyser vestment in industry should be re believes. “ There’s no free lunch and vised. Savings for investm ents the lunch tab goes up everytime we should be encouraged. “ A t present, don’t pay for it.” this country’s savings rate is only • The third area of concentration 3.3% , a national disgrace compared should be monetary policy. “ There’s to other countries.” Productivity is not a single human being in Wash the only real way to provide more ington today who knows how to run jobs. “ Those who put roadblocks in a proper money supply policy.” The the way of investment are either Federal Reserve Board has to stop dumbbells or hypocrites.” bouncing like a ping pong ball be • The seventh area of concern is tween too little and too much con government restriction on the free trol and institute a slow, but deter market. “ It’s past time for business mined policy to change the supply. to stop paying lip-service to free, • Fourth, the removal of unreal competitive enterprise and crying to istically low interest rates for both governm ent whenever anything savers and lending institutions is an goes wrong.” Airline deregulation area that needs work. The present probably will go down as a conspic system of controlled rates penalizes uous achievem ent o f the Carter people who don’t have the sophisti administration. cation or the cash to move through • The eighth area on which the the money markets for the best deal. nation must focus is energy. Con Banks and lending institutions servation already is working, partic should make more money available ularly in industry. The answer must for mortgage rates so more Ameri come on the supply side by increas cans can afford to own their own ing dom estic energy resources, homes. using market incentives to avoid • Labor is the fifth area in need of international blackmail. In solving revam ping. Instead o f treating the energy problems “ a lot of dirty labor-m anagem ent relations as a rats will make a very big profit,” class war, they should be treated as a nation united. Congress should GOLDEN DECADE . . . (Turn to page 4, please) take a long range look at the abuses Predicts Golden Decade for America A V Wir -A * ~Jr 40 > i t T HE next ten years can be a ■ golden decade for the U nited S tates, if the politician s and the people start w orking on in flation problems n o w .” So pre d ic t e d L o u is Rukeyser, host of te le v is io n ’ s “ W a ll S t r e e t W eek,” at Cent L. RUKEYSER ral Bank of Den ver’s financial seminar recently. Speaking to an audience of approximately 550 people from the private sector and the financial com munity, Mr. Rukeyser outlined 10 ways to reach his predicted golden decade and put an end to our current inflation woes. • The first, he says, is public edu cation, a remedy to the economic illiteracy that affects the country. The people who elect representa tives should gather behind a non partisan program o f econom ic sense. “ We need to put an end to W a sh in g ton ’ s n on -stop amateur night with the American economy.” • The second area the country must concentrate on is the budget under which the government spends more than it takes in. Through the press, the nation has been told the current budget, projecting a $29 billion deficit, is a lean and austere For availability of funds, knowledgeable people and professional service, call our correspondent bank department. TOLL FREE 1-800-362-1615 “C” Central National Bank & Trust Company https://fraser.stlouisfed.org Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis ^ LOCUST AT 6TH/DES MOINES, IA 50309 MEMBER FDIC AFFILIATED WITH CENTRAL NATIONAL BANCSHARES, INC. When it comes to total service, yo u ’ll get a lot of help for your money. John Rigler IOWA . nes/vtoines A ip '( M NATIONAL BANK An A ffilia te o f N o rth w e s t B a n c o rp o ra tio n BANCO(«> Iowa News The following Iowa banks have increased their amount of common capital by a stock dividend: Alton Savings Bank, $105,000 to $210,000; A rlin gton State Bank, $75,000 to $150,000; Farmers Sav ings Bank, H albur, $60,000 to $120,000; Hills Bank & Trust Com pany, $840,000 to $1,680,000; American Trust & Savings Bank, Low den, $150,000 to $300,000; Lytton Savings Bank, $50,000 to $150,000; Moorhead State Bank, $60,000 to $120,000; Henry County Savings Bank, M t. P leasant, $400,000 to $1 million; Mt. Vernon Bank & T rust C o., $200,000 to $400,000; Onawa State Bank, $300,000 to $900,000; Readlyn Sav ings Bank, $50,000 to $150,000, and Wall Lake Savings Bank, $75,000 to $750,000. GLIDDEN: Glidden First National Holding Company has received con sent from the Federal Reserve Sys tem to become a bank holding com pany by acquiring the First Nation al Bank here. to m ake M N B w ork for you. Toll free 1- 800 - 332-5991 INDIANOLA: Peoples Trust and Savings Bank has received consent from the state department of bank ing to establish an in-town bank office at the West Roads Shopping Center. N EVADA: Robert H. Lembke has joined the Nevada National Bank as vice president. He will handle agri cultural and commercial loans. He was previou sly w ith the T ipton State Bank and Citizens State Bank, Postville. TINGLEY: The Tingley State Sav ings Bank has applied for consent from the state department of bank ing to relocate its charter to Mount A y r and establish an office in Tingley. W E A V E R : H arvey L. R obinson has been appointed cashier and trust officer at the Farmers Savings Bank. He succeeds Edson P. Cornick who has retired from the chief execu tive officer p osition . Mr. Robinson joined the bank in 1977. Nebraska News Merchants National Bank 151 Member F.D.I.C. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis A 'BANKS OF IOWA’ BANK come wfthus Bankers Thist Des Moines, Iowa 50304 HUMBOLDT: Richard J. Fiddelke has joined the Humboldt Trust & Savings Bank as cashier. He was formerly cashier of the First Na tional Bank, Paullina. SIOUX CITY: Valley State Bank has received consent from the state department of banking to open an in-town bank office at the Southern Hills Mall. ASK TERRY MARTIN fö h n M u r a n o : DAVID CITY: Ronald A. Bertucci has joined the First National Bank here as senior vice president. He formerly served as vice president of the First State Bank, Shelton, for the past four years. O M A H A : The annual E xecu tive Night of the Mid Plains Group of the N ational A ssocia tio n o f Bank Women will be held at the Happy Hollow Country Club March 25 with a reception at 6 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m. Featured speaker will be B. LaRae Orullian, president and chief executive officer of The Women’s Bank of Denver, Colo. PALMER: Randy Helgren has join ed the State Bank of Palmer as executive vice president and cashier, replacing Jim Thede who has resigned after serving as cashier for 14 years. Mr. Helgren was form erly cashier of the First National Bank, Osceola. NEBRASKA NEWS . . . 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Vice President 234-2647 Vice President 234-2463 Sales Representative 234-2674 Member FDIC Announce I BAA Officers at 50th Anniversary Convention Thomas F. Bolger stepped up from first vice president to president of the Independent Bankers Associ ation of America at the group's 50th anniversary con ven tion in San Francisco last week. Mr. Bolger, president and chief executive officer of the McHenry (111.) State Bank, succeeds Raymond D. Campbell, president of the Oberlin (Ohio) Sav ings Bank. Second V ice President W . C. Bennett, chief executive officer of the A rth ur State Bank, U nion, S .C ., has been named first vice pres ident. Tapped as second vice presi dent was Robert L. McCormick Jr., president and chief executive officer of The Stillwater (Okla.) National Bank & Trust Company. Robert H. Fearon Jr., president of the Oneida Valley National Bank, O neida, N .Y ., continues as the association’s treasurer, and Howard Bell is the executive director. A record 2,500 men and women attended the golden anniversary convention at the San Francisco Hilton March 9-12. The IB A A adopted a form al resolution protesting the granting of extended powers to thrift institu tions while not immediately elimi nating the interest rate differential and sent a copy of the resolution to the Senate and House Conference Committee in Washington. • The tenth area is directed to ward the individual who must seek protection from inflation. The in dividual must demand that mon etary presses be slowed and the tax system indexed to discourage government taxation policy which “ makes government the principal beneficiary of its own villainy. ” □ GOLDEN DECADE . . . (Continued from front page) Mr. Rukeyser said. “ I hope they are not just obscene, but downright pornographic.” • Foreign policy is the ninth area which deserves a concentration of effort. It should be based on domes tic interests such as agricultural and computer technology and foreign trade. 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(Continued from page 2) Most I BA Members Say ‘No’ to Branching Illinois bankers again show little or no interest in branching, accord ing to Gavin Weir, president of the Illin ois Bankers A ssocia tion and chairman and president, Chicago City Bank and Trust Company. A survey mailed to all member 5 CALL ON THE “PERFORMANCE TEAM” ■# where comm on transactions are handled uncom m only well. FIRST NATIONAL LINCOLN êK 13th & M Street • Lincoln, Nebraska 68501 • Member, F.D.I.C. it■>h A >4 ■f ■*- û tf ¥■ fi M J* banks earlier this year was returned by 728 (71.5%) of the IB A ’s 1,017 members. There are approximately 1,300 banks in Illinois. On the issue of branch banking, 547 respondents opposed a change in structure, while 177 favored some form of branching. “ With a 3-1 vote to maintain the present structure of unit banking in Illinois and, even though a branch ing bill is pending, there is little like lihood that a branching bill will be passed in the near future, ’ ’ Mr. Weir said. “ The focus in Springfield now is on multi-bank holding companies, as opposed to the one-bank holding com panies which are perm itted under present Illinois law. The re sults of our survey show that 498 (68.4%) of our members responding oppose permitting MBHCs, while 225 (30.9%) favor some form of MBHC legislation. The results indi cate that bankers feel they can con tinue to provide service to the con sumers in their own communities more effectively under the unit banking system. “ The results further dem on strate,” Mr. Weir added, “ that our bankers are satisfied with the present law that permits banks to maintain up to two limited service facilities separate from the main b a n k .” F u ll-service banking at * r n facilities was turned down by IB A members 476-222. Illinois News CHICAGO: Rudolph G. Schoppe has joined Capitol Bank of Chicago as vice president and senior trust adm inistrator. He w ill head the bank’s complete trust department. Most recently he was an assistant vice president and trust officer with N orthw est N ational Bank o f Chicago. 3 ORTONVILLE: Ronald A . Arndt has been elected president and chief executive officer of the.Northwest ern State Bank of Ortonville suc ceeding Elwood A. Throndrud who was elected chairman of the board. Mr . Arndt formerly served as senior vice president of the Northwestern National Bank of Litchfield. Mr. Throndrud had been president of the Ortonville bank since 1957. Minnesota News LONG LAKE: The State Bank of Long Lake is under new ownership and management as a result of a sale of the majority stock by William Bartig to the Tysan Corp., Minne apolis. Albert Tychman was elected chairman of the board, and David M. Sanders was named vice presi dent and a director. Both men are principals of the Tysan Corp. Rod ger Bense was elected president, chief execu tive officer and a director. He was formerly executive vice president of the First National Bank of Long Prairie. MINNEAPOLIS: The Farmers & Mechanics Savings Bank of Minne apolis has announced four promot io n s —John H auschild from vice president and treasurer to executive vice president; Harvey L. Mild and Mayer S. Tapper from vice presi dent to senior vice president, and Donald L. Smith from assistant treasurer to treasurer. MONTICELLO: Monticello Bancshares, Inc. has. received consent from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minnapolis to become a bank hold- % ing com pany b y acquiring the Wright County State Bank here. i Colorado News DENVER: Gary J. DeFrange has been elected a vice president of First National Bancorporation, Inc. here. He is the director of manpower plan ning and employment. Three staff members were named assistant vice presidents, FellH. Stubbs, H. Allen Rheem Jr. and Linda Sanders. Montana news B IL L IN G S : F irst Bank (N .A .)B illings has filed for perm ission from the regional administrator of national banks to locate CBCT units at two Billings grocery stores. South Dakota News ABERDEEN: C. Fred Mateer has been named vice president of human resources for the F irst N ational Bank of Aberdeen and its branches. He was form erly assistant vice president and manager o f the personnel departm ent. V iola Fosheim was named assistant man ager of the B ristol branch. 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