Note B - General	9 Months Ended
Oct. 03, 2021
Notes to Financial Statements
Unusual or Infrequent Items, or Both, Disclosure [Text Block]	NOTE B – GENERAL Government responses to the COVID-19 virus have impacted worldwide economic activity. The Company continues to monitor the impact of the pandemic on all aspects of its business, including effects on employees, customers, suppliers, and the global economy and will adjust procedures accordingly. All of the Company’s businesses are deemed essential and as a result, all have been and are currently operating. The COVID-19 related edicts and guidelines continue to affect each segment in a variety of fashions, which include material and labor shortages, contributing to increased material and labor costs as well as difficulty in securing needed products and components; congestion throughout the supply chain resulting in sizable delays; increased absenteeism; limited opportunities to meet with customers/suppliers; as well as inefficiencies inherent when dealing with suppliers and customers that continue to work from home. The extent to which the various responses to the COVID-19 pandemic impact the Company’s business for the remainder of 2021 and beyond will depend on future developments that are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted. In response to the government mandated COVID-19 shutdowns, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) was signed into law on March 27, 2020. The CARES Act, among other things, includes tax provisions relating to refundable payroll tax credits, deferment of employer’s social security payments, net operating loss utilization and carryback periods, modifications to the net interest deduction limitations and technical corrections to tax depreciation methods for qualified improvement property (QIP). The CARES Act did not have a material impact on the Company’s income tax provision for the three months or nine months ended October 3, 2021.

Note B - General

9 Months Ended

Oct. 03, 2021

Unusual or Infrequent Items, or Both, Disclosure [Text Block]

NOTE B – GENERAL

Government responses to the COVID-19 virus have impacted worldwide economic activity. The Company continues to monitor the impact of the pandemic on all aspects of its business, including effects on employees, customers, suppliers, and the global economy and will adjust procedures accordingly. All of the Company’s businesses are deemed essential and as a result, all have been and are currently operating. The COVID-19 related edicts and guidelines continue to affect each segment in a variety of fashions, which include material and labor shortages, contributing to increased material and labor costs as well as difficulty in securing needed products and components; congestion throughout the supply chain resulting in sizable delays; increased absenteeism; limited opportunities to meet with customers/suppliers; as well as inefficiencies inherent when dealing with suppliers and customers that continue to work from home. The extent to which the various responses to the COVID-19 pandemic impact the Company’s business for the remainder of 2021 and beyond will depend on future developments that are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted.

In response to the government mandated COVID-19 shutdowns, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) was signed into law on March 27, 2020. The CARES Act, among other things, includes tax provisions relating to refundable payroll tax credits, deferment of employer’s social security payments, net operating loss utilization and carryback periods, modifications to the net interest deduction limitations and technical corrections to tax depreciation methods for qualified improvement property (QIP). The CARES Act did not have a material impact on the Company’s income tax provision for the three months or nine months ended October 3, 2021.