Archdiocesan Project
Milwaukee to Build
School TV Network
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — (RNS)
— The Milwaukee Catholic arch
diocese will build its own educa
tional television network to link
235 elementary and 25 high
schools in a 10-county area of
southeastern Wisconsin.
The network is expected to
begin operations in the Milwaukee
metropolitan area in 1968. It will
be completed by 1971. The
$800,000 development will be un
derwritten by the archdiocese.
Msgr. Edmund J. Goebel, arch
diocesan school superintendent,
said in announcing the project
that the network’s potential was
a “revolutionary concept of edu
cation.” It will not replace class
room teachers, however.
THE NETWORK will broadcast
on ultra high frequency (UHF)
channels allocated by the Federal
Communications Commission in
1963 for “instructional television
fixed service.”
The network will be developed
in five phases. Construction of a
studio and transmitting tower will
be the first phase. A two channel
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er, a brother of Mother
Berchmans Julia, S.N.D., died
at his Church in Xenia, Ohio.
Sister is stationed at the
Catholic School in Chapel
Hill, N.C.
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ported on page 2A of last
weeks edition.
network for 134 schools in the
Milwaukee metropolitan area is
expected to be ready by the Fall
of 1968. Network facilities and ex
pansion to four stations to reach
the other counties will come in
the last three phases.
Msgr. Goebel said he expected
extensive changes in the arch
dicesan curriculum after 1968 so
there could be coordination be
tween the television instruction
and the teachers’ materials in the
classroom.
ALL PROGRAMS will be taped
and will be about 20 minutes long.
Msgr. Goebel said he expected to
make extensive use of taped les
sons prepared by nationally
known educators.
KOREAN COSTUME — Archbishop John B. Sye of Taegu, Korea, has donned a comfortable
Korean costume, as he talks over archdiocesan affairs in traditional Oriental cross-legged posi
tion with one of the Austrian priests assisting him in his work (NC Photos)
Priest Flees to Russia
MOSCOW — (RNS) — Soviet television in
terrupted a sports program so that millions of
Russians could see and hear Harold M. Koch, an
American Roman Catholic priest until he abandoned
his post in a Chicago parish three years ago, who
has now defected to the Soviet Union.
A day after Tass, the Soviet news agency, had
quoted the 34-year-old American as saying he
sought asylum here so that he could take “an ac
tive part in the struggle against the injustice and
cruelty of the Vietnamese war,” he appeared on
TV screens neatly dressed in a dark business suit,
white shirt and dark tie and wearing horn rimmed
glasses which gave him a scholarly appearance.
Father Koch, who came from a Polish-Ameri
can family, was trained for the priesthood at the
Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago and at
St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein, 111.
He was ordained in 1958 and served in five parishes
before abandoning his priestly role.
A spokesman for the Chicago chancery office
issued a press statement (Sept. 12) that Father
Harold M. Koch “served in the Archdiocese of
Chicago from 1958-1963,” but “when counseled by
his superiors to undergo psychiatric treatment, left
the archdiocese. He has not been in contact With
archdiocesan officials since April, 1963.”
A friend described him as “a liberal but defi
nitely not a communist.” Since leaving the priest
hood, the friend said, Father Koch has been teach
ing English and engaged in translating.
In Washington, D.C., Marcel Rocca, head of the
Institute of Modern Languages, said Father Koch
had been hired as a $7,000-a-year employee for a
trial period.
What's Behind Rampage by 'Red Guard'?
By Germaine Swam
HONG KONG — (NC) — Ab
bott and Costello’s classic “Who’s
on first?” skit is being replayed
by China experts trying to figure
out the results and motives of the
Red Guard rampage and the shift
of power in China’s Communist
party.
Looking back to 1957, observers
believe now that the party re
forms of that year were the out
come of the fears that a popular
revolution would sweep the party
leadership. A split had developed
between the people and the party,
and the parly reform was meant
to heal the wound.
Whether the Red Guard activity
of the last few weeks is an ex
ample of a new revolutionary
spirit within the party or an anti
dote for dissatisfaction throughout
the country is not yet evident.
Some people believe that the
Red Guard was meant as a dis
traction for the people and a way
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of releasing the pent-up energies
of young zealots. These observers
feel that China’s leaders foresaw
an outburst of enthusiasm and de
cided to direct it against non
Chinese and non-eomjnunist ele
ments.
Resistance to the Red Guards in
some areas indicates that their en
thusiasm is not universally ad
mired. Seizing control of party
headquarters, the homes of party
leaders, and other points of in
fluence, the Red Guards have de
ported, beaten and sometimes
killed those who opposed them.
This has only increased resistence,
and caused deaths within Red
Guard ranks.
Further complicating the situa
tion is Mao Tse-tung’s recent
curbing of Red Guard activity.
Whether it is a direct curbing of
Red Guard growing from fear of
the Red Guard, or whether it
grows from fear of widespread re
action to the Red Guard is un
clear.
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Informal Dress
Marks Meeting
Of Bishop De Roo
VICTORIA, B.C. — (NC) -
Only an episcopal ring distin
guished Bishop Remi J. De Roo
from the other 20 participants in
recent discussions here on a dioc
esan survey of Catholic opinion.
The bishop, who had invited 15
lay people, three priests, and two
nuns to discuss survey results with
him was able to convince one of
the nuns of his identity only by
showing the ring he wore.
During the week-long meeting,
Bishop De Roo, a youthful looking
42, joined the discussions wearing
slacks and a sport shirt; took his
turn carrying coffee and sand
wiches to the group; pitched in
with the cooking at a barbecue;
and joined one of the group,
breaks to attend a-movie at a
local theatre.
The bishop also refrained from
leading group discussions, remind
ing the other participants when
ever he was asked a question, “I’m
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