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...proselytizing also raised the possibility that the Government might interfere with a school's right to exercise its religion freely. This led Burger to apply an additional test that he first expressed in the court's decision a year ago upholding tax exemptions for church property. In Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York, Burger argued that the process of assessing and taxing church-owned property would create an "excessive entanglement" between state and church. Supervisors who monitor teachers in the Pennsylvania and Rhode Island plans might sufficiently restrain pedagogues from advancing religion to meet...
Strict Construction. The new challenge was launched three years ago by Frederick Walz, an elderly New York lawyer who is so reclusive that he refuses to be photographed and conducted his entire case by mail and phone calls. To become a landowner, Walz bought .0146 of a weed-choked acre on Staten Island. When the city billed him for taxes of $5.24 on the lot's $100 value, he filed a suit to prevent New York from granting tax exemptions to churches, claiming that the city was using part of his money to support them. He was a Christian...
Only Justice William O. Douglas agreed with Walz. Summarizing his dissent from the bench, Douglas wryly urged a "strict construction" of the First Amendment's ban on official establishment of religion. In his view, tax exemption subverts the ban because it favors religion at the expense of atheistic or agnostic groups. The result, said Douglas, violates the constitutional command of Government neutrality "between believers and nonbelievers...
Peter C. Ober '62 has been awarded the John A. Walz Jr. prize $81, for the best general examination in, German literature...
...Gail Pitts, an account executive with a public relations firm, felt differently. "I want to be around when it's all over," she said, "but I must admit I don't care too much about the idea of a fallout shelter. Still . . ." The third girl, Barbara Walz, an oil company receptionist, had a specific concern: "It's the children who give me the most worry. With my husband in one place and me in another, and the children at school, we really have no control." Marion Booth, office manager for a public relations firm, has no children...