Free meals are served to the bank's employees in the spacious dining room on the seventh floor of its Seventh Street Building. Meals include salads, desserts, and plentiful serving of vegetables and meat.
Mercantile Trust Company has become the first bank in the nation to put into general service the IBM 4700, an advanced computer system for bank tellers. Mercantile has been testing the state-of-the-art computer terminal system since mid-May in a joint program with IBM. The system enables tellers to serve customers more quickly and efficiently.
The largest bank under one roof west of the Mississippi River, the Mercantile Trust Company, began operations yesterday, formed from the merger of the Mercantile-Commerce Bank and Trust Company and the Mississippi Valley Trust Company and located in the former's quarters in teh block bounded by Eighth and Seventh, Locust and St. Charles streets.
