BNF stockholders clear way for Planters deal.

DECATUR, Ala. BNF Bancorp said its stockholders have approved the company's planned acquisition by Union Planters Corp. of Memphis, clearing the way for completion of the transaction today.

Each BNF share. is to be exchanged for 1.078 shares of Union Planters common stock.

BNF's subsidiary Bankfirst, a saving bank with seven full-service. offices in north-central Alabama, will become a wholly owned subsidiary of $7 billion-asset Union Planters, which has 43 banks .and-239 banking offices in Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Alabama.

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