Mike Naumoff Returns
After 12 Year Absence
Mike Naumoff, the Kodiak Is
land youth who was paralyzed in
a shooting accident more than
twelve years ago, returned to Ko
diak last Friday. He plans to make
Kodiak Ins home.
Mike s return here is the cul'min
nation of a series of surgical op
erations, hospitalizations, attend
ing school and eventual learning
of a trade to fit him for a life of
usefulness. His story is one of
courage, of hopefulness, a single
ness of purpose, the achievement
of a goal set at the beginning.
Naumoff received his 2nd class
radio operators license January 20
of this year. He now has his 1st
class, which entiUes him Jo work
transmitters up to 50,00(5 watts.
This is no mean acheiveraent for
a youth whom doctors said of him,
“he shouldn’t be alive.” To refresh
your memory we will go back to
the beginning.
When Mike was twelve years
old, he lived with his parents at
Chief s Point on Larsen’s Bay.
While swimming one day, his lit
tle brother, aged seven years, ac
cidently shot a .22 rifle in his di
rection. The bullet lodged in his
spine, severing it. That was July
1, 1944. He was immediately rush
ed to Griffin Memorial Hospital,
where he was operated on by Dr.
A. Holmes Johnson. After several
months in the hospital he was
taken to the Children’s Orthopedic
Hospital in Seattle, where he re
mained until, in 1946, he returned
to Kodiak Island and lived with
his parents who had moved to Kar
luk.
Mike remained at Karluk for
ten months. In 1947, he entered
the Mt. Edgecombe Hospital. He
was a patient there for three
years. He also attended school at
Sitka. During part of 1950 and
1953, he attended Sheldon Jack
son high school.
The ACCA took up his case in
earnest in that year, and “Opera
tion Mike” was launched. Funds
collected through this drive, which
was carried out in Kodiak and all
over the Island, as well as on the
mainland, were matched by the
Territory on a 3 to 1 basis. Mike
then went to California, where he
received specialized medical treat
ment for a period of ten months.
Following that he entered a
trade school in Tacoma, where he
remained for two years, learning
the ABC’s of radio. On completing
the course, and receiving his 1st
class license, Naumoff returned to
Kodiak. He is, of course, confined
to a wheel chair, but despite his
handicap, he is bright and cheer
ful. He is very alert mentally, and
hopes eventually to master the in
tricacies of television and radar.
Mike, of course, is well known
in Kodiak and on the Island. This
is partly due to the wide-publicity
he received due to his accident
Hie has many relatives in Kodiak
and on the Island, having been
born in Karluk in 1932.
Mike Naumoff is presently work
ing at Hamilton-Kimbell TV Shop.
His biggest problem at this writ
ing is a suitable place to live. He
requires a room on a street floor,
thus eliminating the problem of
negotiating steps.
Since Mike is thoroughly quali
fied to operate a transmitting sta
tion, he envisages a commercial
radio station-for Kodiak some day.
His arrival here might mean just
that.
Kodiak Movies
Sought For TV
16 mm movie film of Kodiak is
sought by a TV Broadcasting Com
pany, who are doing a series of
programs on Alaska in the near
future.
Emil Knudsen, who is now in
Fairbanks, called here for anyone
who has such film which will be
suitable, to make them available.
Representatives of the company
are in the territory gathering ma
terial, but due to a limited time
schedule, will be unable to come
to Kodiak. Anyone having such
film, are asked to contact Jo Ann
Knudsen. at the store.
Mr. and Mrs. Knudsen left for
the mainland Friday on a com
bined business and pleasure trip.
Their stay is indefinite, but be
fore returning, they will go to An
chorage and drive on the Kenai
Peninsula to Seward and Homer.
The world’s smallest republic is
San Marino, in Central Italy, with
a total area of 38 square miles.
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NOTICE
Dr. E. E. r.ach, optometrist from Anchorage, will
be in Kodiak again on August 19 to 23. Eor an ap
pointment call M rs. Carl Huer at 4581. ll-2n
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