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Citizens and Southern Athens Branch Bank Is Opened Saturday ATHENS, Aug. 1.—(AP)—A local branch of the Citizens' and Southern bank opened here today with Mills B. Lane, president, and several other officials in attendance. Directors of the local office were announced today as being Dr. Andrew M. Soule, president of the State College of Agriculture; Howell C. Erwin, local attorney; Mills B. Lane, C. M. Power, H. Lane Young and R. V. Watterson, formerly of Savannah, cashier. Shortly after the opening of the bank the stockholders and depositors of the defunct Georgia National bank, at a public meeting, ratified a plan worked out by a committee headed by Andrew C. Erwin whereby the affairs of the bank will be liquidated by a holding company without a permanent receivership. The Citizens' and Southern bank also will aid in the liquidation of the American State bank, which suspended business in April.