Employee Retirement Plans (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Jul. 31, 2011

Employee Retirement Plans (Tables) [Abstract]

Costs and payments related to supplemental retirement plans

The Company has two unfunded supplemental retirement plans for certain employees. For the nine-month and three-month periods ended July 31, 2011 and 2010, the Company recognized costs and made payments related to its supplemental retirement plans as follows (amounts in thousands):

	Nine months ended July 31,				Three months ended July 31,
	2011		2010		2011		2010
Service cost	$	229	$	182	$	76	$	60
Interest cost		968		1,041		323		347
Amortization of prior service obligation		520		920		173		307
Total costs	$	1,717	$	2,143	$	572	$	714
Benefits paid	$	96	$	96	$	34	$	34