Exhibit 99.1
PRESS
RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: April 21, 2009
Company: National Bancshares Corporation
112 West Market Street
Orrville, Ohio 44667
Contact: David C. Vernon
President and CEO
Phone: 330.682.1010
Fax: 330.682.4644
National Bancshares Corporation Appoints James R. Smail,
Director
ORRVILLE, Ohio, April 21, 2009 ~ National Bancshares Corporation
(OTC: NBOH)
today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed James R.
Smail,
a Director of the Company and it`s subsidiary First National Bank.
Mr. Smail
has been appointed as a Class II Director, with a term expiring
in
April 2010, to fill a position created by the retirement of a
former Director.
Mr. Smail is a native of Wayne County, Ohio with a thirty-seven
year
background in Banking, Oil and Gas Production, Drilling Contractor,
Coal
Mining, Ranching and Real Estate Development. He is Chairman of The
Board
and owner of The Monitor Bank of Big Prairie, Ohio. He is an
Advisory Board
Member of the Bank of Oklahoma based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was a
founding
member of the Independent State Bank of Ohio situated in Columbus,
Ohio and
past Officer and Director of the Community Bankers Association of
Ohio.
He is Chairman of the Board of J.R. Smail, Inc., an oil and gas
producing
company with interests in Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Kansas,
Texas,
Louisiana, Illinois, Montana and West Virginia. He is the immediate
Past
Preside
