Employee Benefit Plans

3 Months Ended

Apr. 30, 2011

Employee Benefit Plans [Abstract]

Pension and Other Postretirement Benefits Disclosure

6.       Employee Benefit Plans

Components of the net periodic benefit cost for our defined benefit pension plans and our other postretirement employee benefits (OPEB) plan for the three months ended April 30, 2011 and 2010 are presented below.

	Qualified Pension				Nonqualified Pension				Other Benefits
In thousands		2011		2010		2011		2010		2011		2010
Service cost	$	2,225	$	2,100	$	11	$	10	$	350	$	334
Interest cost		2,700		2,850		52		61		374		476
Expected return
on plan assets		(5,150)		(4,775)		-		-		(384)		(345)
Amortization of
transition obligation		-		-		-		-		167		167
Amortization of prior
service (credit) cost		(550)		(550)		5		5		-		-
Amortization of actuarial
loss		775		550		11		2		-		59
Total	$	-	$	175	$	79	$	78	$	507	$	691

Components of the net periodic benefit cost for our defined benefit pension plans and our OPEB plan for the six months ended April 30, 2011 and 2010 are presented below.

	Qualified Pension				Nonqualified Pension				Other Benefits
In thousands		2011		2010		2011		2010		2011		2010
Service cost	$	4,450	$	4,200	$	23	$	19	$	699	$	669
Interest cost		5,400		5,700		104		121		747		953
Expected return
on plan assets		(10,300)		(9,550)		-		-		(767)		(691)
Amortization of
transition obligation		-		-		-		-		334		334
Amortization of prior
service (credit) cost		(1,100)		(1,100)		10		10		-		-
Amortization of actuarial
loss		1,550		1,100		21		5		-		118
Total	$	-	$	350	$	158	$	155	$	1,013	$	1,383

In November 2010, we contributed $22million to the qualified pension plan, and in January 2011, we contributed $.3 million to the money purchase pension plan. We anticipate that we will contribute the following amounts to our other plans in 2011.

In thousands
Nonqualified pension plan	$	517
OPEB plan		1,400

We have a defined contribution restoration(DCR) plan thatwe fund annually and that covers all officers at the vice president level and above. For the sixmonths ended April 30, 2011,we contributed $.4million to this plan.Participants may not contribute to the DCR plan. We have a voluntary deferral plan for the benefit of alldirector-levelemployees and officers; we make no contributions to this plan. Both deferred compensation plans are funded through a rabbi trust with a bank as the trustee. As ofApril 30, 2011, we have a liability of $1.7 million for these plans.

See Note 4 and Note 10 to the consolidated financial statements in this Form 10-Q for information on the investments in marketable securities that are held in the trust.