PUTZ'S 1ST BOOK, IGNOBLE ENIGMA

david won a prize for guessing how many beans were in a large jar at christensen's mercantile...his was a major prize, although the particular radio that he WON melted on him three different times...the radio tube was too big and too close to the body of the radio...he would take it back and they would give him a similar defective radio...in the end listened to it with the plastic melted but since most of his listening was about 1 a.m. in the morning, no one noticed that it was no good...david would get radio stations with clear signals, on especially cold nights when the air was about to snap, he would get radio signals even stronger...he listened one night to a station in CUTBANK ....david did not know where cutbank was, but he imagined it was pretty far because it would be -45 degrees and the radio commentator would caution everyone to not go without something on their arms, or face, or hands...he said noone should stay out for more than one or two hours at a time...david would then listen to elvis presley, buddy holly, , little richard, the great bopper richardson, the everly brothers and the hit parade with rosemary clooney...later we had a home teacher who knew where cut bank was...he had vever lived there himself, but he was from central Montana and he said cutbank was north of him near the Canadian border