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Note 10 - Pension and Other Postretirement Benefit Plans (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2015
Retirement Plan [Member] |
Note 10 - Pension and Other Postretirement Benefit Plans (Tables) [Line Items] |
Schedule of Net Benefit Costs [Table Text Block] |
|  | Three months ended September 30, |  | Nine months ended September 30,
(In thousands) |  | 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2015 |  | 2014
Employee Pension Plan: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Interest cost |  | $ | 221 |  |  | $ | 223 |  |  | $ | 663 |  |  | $ | 669 |
Amortization of unrecognized loss |  |  | 291 |  |  |  | 190 |  |  |  | 872 |  |  |  | 570 |
Expected return on plan assets |  |  | (350 | ) |  |  | (336 | ) |  |  | (1,050 | ) |  |  | (1,008 | )
Net employee pension expense |  | $ | 162 |  |  | $ | 77 |  |  | $ | 485 |  |  | $ | 231 |
Outside Director Pension Plan: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Service cost |  | $ | 11 |  |  | $ | 13 |  |  | $ | 33 |  |  | $ | 39 |
Interest cost |  |  | 24 |  |  |  | 29 |  |  |  | 72 |  |  |  | 87 |
Accretion of unrecognized gain |  |  | (14 | ) |  |  | (15 | ) |  |  | (42 | ) |  |  | (45 | )
Amortization of past service liability |  |  | 10 |  |  |  | 10 |  |  |  | 30 |  |  |  | 30 |
Net outside director pension expense |  | $ | 31 |  |  | $ | 37 |  |  | $ | 93 |  |  | $ | 111 |
Other Postretirement Benefit Plans: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Service cost |  | $ | 95 |  |  | $ | 90 |  |  | $ | 285 |  |  | $ | 270 |
Interest cost |  |  | 75 |  |  |  | 63 |  |  |  | 225 |  |  |  | 189 |
Amortization of unrecognized loss |  |  | 30 |  |  |  | - |  |  |  | 90 |  |  |  | - |
Accretion of past service credit |  |  | (21 | ) |  |  | (22 | ) |  |  | (64 | ) |  |  | (67 | )
Net other postretirement expense |  | $ | 179 |  |  | $ | 131 |  |  | $ | 536 |  |  | $ | 392 |

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