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Storm hunters on watch!
THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1978
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WHEATLAND, Wyo. — For the
th’s fall iast six years, Cameron D. Hall has
laid his taxes with a smile — and
mg, Fn lothing else.
Hall, 39, is the manager and part
;r boa/il wner of a landscape contracting
ervice. On Monday the deadline
or filing income tax returns, passed
is just another day for him.
“It might as well be my birthday,”
.ears*! jjJl sa jd Monday.
Hall bills himself as part of a pro-
bst movement the Internal Revene
iervice is powerless to stop. He says
le is just one of “a lot of folks” who
imply refuse to pay taxes as politi-
:al protest or for other reasons.
To Hall, federal income taxes are
mconstitutional.
“The income tax hits only the
vorking man,” he said. The super-
ich and people on welfare pay no
ting and the working man foots the
bill. The government is dollaring
he taxpayer to death.”
In 1972, when Hall filed his last
tax return, he sent a certified leter
o the secretary of the treasury: “I
ook a Magic Marker and wrote
mif'diagonally across the tax return
page. I signed my name and said I
tional ? r °te s t under the U.S. Constitu-
ion. They sent it back to me saying
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list of; About three years later, Hall re-
ntally” railed, IRS agents visited him at his
Denver residence.
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ir move, they come looking for
pie,” he said.
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make out it’s really a bad deal,” he
said.
But Hall claims no action has
been taken.
“By the time they finish reading
the Miranda decision advising sus
pects of their right to remain silent,
there’s really not much else for
them to say,” he said. “If you let
them run over you, I mean they’ll
walk in and tell you they have a
right to do things when they don’t.
“The law is on your side, really.
Every criminal knows his rights, but
the average citizen is brainwashed
into thinking he doesn’t have any. If
the average taxpayer realized the
whole IRS is a bluff, the income tax
would collapse.
“Really, the majority of public
sentiment is behind me. Most of
them are afraid to try it. Most fear
the IRS. That’s bad. Why should we
be afraid of our own government?”
The IRS won a side skirmish with
Hall in March, when a federal court
in Cheyenne enforced agency sum
monses of Hall’s financial record
held by two Wheatland banks.
Hall had ordered the banks not to
honor the summonses, forcing the
IRS to take the banks into court.
U.S. District Judge Clarence A.
Brimmer ordered the banks to show
cause why the agency summonses
should not be upheld and the banks
did nothing.
Though Hall was not a party to
the brief court fight, he said he does
not want the agency to inspect his
bank records now that it has the
right.
“I plan on trying to stop ’em any
way I can,” Hall said, acknowledg
ing that he has no idea how that
might be accomplished.
“That’ll be another move,’’ he
said.
As a powerful storm front hun
dreds of miles away nears, a team of
Texas A&M University hunters
ready for a target mission.
The mission is to track the path of
the advancing storm system as it
sweeps through the Central Texas
countryside. Devised and directed
by Texas A&M meteorology stu
dents, the new program is bringing
the science of weather forecasting
out of the classroom and into na
ture’s strength.
Storm hunters are part of the Se
vere Storm Intercept Project
(SSIP). One of the project leaders is
John Marrs, a graduate student in
meteorology. Marrs, along with a
coordinating team of graduate stu
dents, planned the study.
Marrs explained that target days
for the storm hunters begin days in
advance.
“Our forecasting is done with
conventional techniques in combi
nation with a special computer pro
gram developed by graduate stu
dent Gre^ Wilson, he explains.
“This computer program is run
when conditions begin to look favor
able for severe weather.
In coordination with the team are
the radar facilities in the
Oceanography-Meteorology Build
ing on campus. The radar has a
range of 400 miles.
Wilson’s program is run the day
before the target mission. If his pro
gram looks good, then the team
checks the conventional data again.
“By the next day even more data
is analyzed and we make the final
forecast,” said Marrs. “If the mis
sion is go, the notices are posted and
we are ready.”
A mission consists of two or three
vehicles containing three spotters.
Each vehicle is loaded with
cameras, film, tape, instruments
and radios.
Headquarters for the mission is
the observatory of the 15-story
O&M Building. The hunters have
had two hits and one miss in their
forays out in search of the storms.
“The first and third storm
missions were a success, but we
missed on our second time out. By.
the time we got there conditions
had changed and the storm just did
not develop,” Marrs explained.
It’s not surprising for conditions
to change when great distances are
involved. The team has traveled
more than 500 miles in search of a
storm. The idea behind the project
is that one day the team’s documen
tation of storms could improve fore
casting techniques.
“You get out of a building and into
the real world, where the weather
is,” said Marrs. “It gives you a great
chance to see what you have learned
in the classroom come to life. Stu
dents are taught how a storm forms
and what cloud features are indica
tive of hail, tornadoes and high
winds.
“It’s just not the same as seeing it
depicted in a classroom. There is
the tendency to forget what you
have learned if you don’t use it. You
get a real feeling of personal satisfac
tion in the SSIP program. To be out
there ahead of the storm and able to
reason out where the next develop
ment will occur is a great feeling.”
Marrs explained that just follow
ing the storm is not enough. To get
the full impact of a brewing storm
with all its flux and movement the
students have to be one step ahead.
“There is also the satisfaction of
maybe helping people by giving
some advance warning of impending
severe weather,” he said.
The University of Oklahoma and
Iowa State University have had
similar programs for many years.
Out of programs such as these have
developed some of the best film and
photo documentation of tornadoes
and severe storms ever recorded.
SSIP at Texas A&M began this
semester. “We started with an idea
and we have come a long way,”
Marrs said. “Currently more than
15 spotters are involved in the pro
gram and we have the informal sup
port of virtually all of the faculty and
staff of the Meteorology Depart
ment.”
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