Support Your Local Police

An ounce of marijuana used to cost $5 in Marlow, Okla., and when police were trying to catch a dealer, they just dipped into their own pockets to make the buy. Like everything else, the price of grass is growing. It is $30 an ounce these days, and that is a lot of petty cash for officers who earn $636 a month. Their solution: a fund-raising drive to provide a $1,500 Special Police Fund from which to buy narcotics and pay informants. So far businesses, churches and citizens of Marlow have chipped in $1,000. Last week, using some of their new cash, police paid off an informer, then arrested a suspected dealer and confiscated $2,500 worth of narcotics. Proving once again, as St. Paul observed, that charity rejoiceth not in iniquity.

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