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BENEFIT PLANS
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2011
BENEFIT PLANS [Abstract]  
BENEFIT PLANS
NOTE H:  BENEFIT PLANS

The Company provides a qualified defined benefit pension to qualified employees and retirees, and other post-retirement health and life insurance benefits to certain retirees, an unfunded supplemental pension plan for certain key executives, and an unfunded stock balance plan for certain of its nonemployee directors.  The Company accrues for the estimated cost of these benefits through charges to expense during the years that employees earn these benefits.  The net periodic benefit cost for the three and six months ended June 30 is as follows:
 
  Pension Benefits Post-retirement Benefits 
 
Three Months Ended
 
Six Months Ended
 
Three Months Ended
 
Six Months Ended
 
June 30,
 
June 30,
 
June 30,
 
June 30,
(000's omitted)
2011
2010
 
2011
2010
 
2011
2010
 
2011
2010
Service cost
$784
$638
 
$1,470
$1,331
 
$0
$0
 
$0
$0
Interest cost
1,191
967
 
2,153
1,955
 
38
49
 
76
98
Expected return on plan assets
(2,167)
(1,618)
 
(3,934)
(3,235)
 
0
0
 
0
0
Amortization of unrecognized net loss
474
596
 
948
1,210
 
2
4
 
4
9
Amortization of prior service cost
(37)
(47)
 
(75)
(94)
 
(264)
(264)
 
(529)
(529)
Net periodic benefit cost
$245
$536
 
$562
$1,167
 
($224)
($211)
 
($449)
($422)