Employee Benefits

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Pension and Other Postretirement Benefit Expense [Abstract]

Employee Benefits

Note 6 – Employee Benefits

The Company sponsors several qualified and nonqualified pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans for certain of its employees.  The components of net periodic benefit cost are as follows:

	For the Quarter Ended
(In thousands)	March 31, 2012			April 2, 2011
Pension benefits:
Service cost	$	360		$	254
Interest cost		2,219			2,155
Expected return on plan assets		(2,713	)		(2,652	)
Amortization of net loss		943			574
Net periodic benefit cost	$	809		$	331
Other benefits:
Service cost	$	75		$	69
Interest cost		309			318
Amortization of prior service cost		-			1
Amortization of net loss		3			25
Net periodic benefit cost	$	387		$	413