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Employee Retirement And Other Post-Retirement Benefit Plans
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2012
Employee Retirement And Other Post-Retirement Benefit Plans [Abstract]  
Employee Retirement And Other Post-Retirement Benefit Plans

8. EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT AND OTHER POST-RETIREMENT BENEFIT PLANS

The following tables present the components of net periodic pension and other post-retirement benefit costs charged to expense for the three months ended March 31 (in thousands):

  Pension Benefit  
    2012   2011  
Interest cost $ 27 $ 35  
Amortization of unrecognized prior service cost   4   4  
Service cost   –   11  
Gain amortization   –   (55 )
Net periodic benefit cost $ 31 $ (5 )

 

    Other Post-
    Retirement Benefits
    2012   2011
Service cost $ 4 $ 3
Interest cost   56   70
Loss amortization   27   31
Net periodic benefit cost $ 87 $ 104