BRIEFLY : Depositors of an Oklahoma thrift were reassured.
Depositors had lined up Thursday to withdraw money from Sooner Federal Savings & Loan of Tulsa, Oklahoma’s largest S&L;, on rumors that it was near bankruptcy. But the lines disappeared after the Federal Home Loan Bank Board said Sooner Federal “is a healthy institution” and that the “rumors are unfounded.” Sooner Federal President Rick Hagstrom estimated that the thrift had lost “substantially less” than $25 million.
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