Barber Pole spinning again in Malta

For the past 40 years, when men around Phillips County have needed to have their 'ears lowered,' Jerry Salveson has been there, scissors in hand, so when Salveson went down with an injury which sidelined him for three months, the county started looking a lot shaggier.

The small open sign that generally swings beneath the bigger Jerry's Barber Pole sign (and similar sized Tow Ropes sign ) hadn't been seen on Central Avenue in Malta for three months as Salveson dealt with a bulging disc in his back and surgery in which doctors removed 45-percent of the disc in question. Salveson officially made...