Note 4 - Retirement Plans

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2013

Pension and Other Postretirement Benefits Disclosure [Text Block]

4.         Retirement Plans

The following table provides the components of net periodic benefit cost for our pension plans for the three- month periods ended March 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2013			2012
Service cost	$	1,325		$	1,147
Interest cost		917			830
Expected return on plan assets		(830	)		(682	)
Loss amortization		742			576
Net periodic benefit cost	$	2,154		$	1,871

During the three months ended March 31, 2013, we contributed $1.5 million to our pension plans.  During the remainder of 2013, we expect to contribute an additional $1.6 million to $6.5 to our pension plans.