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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 29, 1992                   TAG: 9201290088
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A-7   EDITION: METRO 
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BRIEFLY . . .

Roanoke Electric Steel Corp. on Tuesday declared a dividend of 12 cents per share on its common stock, payable Feb. 25 to shareholders on Feb. 10.

First National Bank in Christiansburg, the fourth-largest independent bank in Virginia with six offices in the New River Valley, has declared a stock split, with shareholders receiving one share for every share they held on Dec. 20, 1991.

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