In 1938, the Manning citizens again made an attempt to get a swimming pool built, but along came Adolph Hitler and the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Imperialists which forced the US into WWII in 1941.
Here are just a few pictures of people and images of what was going on in Manning in 1938.

It will continue to give you an idea of how vast a database I have...so hopefully more people with Manning pictures and history will get their things to me to scan and add to the database.

1938 in Manning


Back: Lyle Hoffmann, Harold "Horse" Nickum, Dick Ohm, Harold "Dutch" Hoffmann, Francis Zerwas
Front: #21 Jimmy Rowedder, #28 Warren Petersen, #26 Lyle Arp, #30 Wayne Witt, #22 Wayne "Pedro" Schrum

April 10, 1938

Back: Leonard Martens, Carl Carlson
Middle: Margaret Lake, Alice Musfeldt, Leola Keat, Viola Rostermundt, Lavona Rohde
Front: Phyllis Dalgety, Vergene Bohnsack, Pastor John Ansorge, Loretta Ewoldt, Geraldine Siem

MHS Band

Back: Wally Kruse, Donald Schrum, Betty Grelck, Francis Zerwas, George Pfoltner, Amos Rutz
Third: on tuba Frank Miller, Pat Wood, LaRae Vandeman, Virginia Vandeman, Dorothy Dethlefs, Elaine Schroeder, Jean Schrum, Lester Siem, LaVerne Meyer, Dorothy Scanlan, LeRoy Hass on tuba
Second: Harold Turpin - bandmaster, Lorraine Kuhl, Margaret Lake, Dale Bingham, Lilah Schrum, Ruth Schelldorf, JoAdele Meyers, Louise Schrum, Louise Kuhl, Naomi Ross, Doris Reinhold, Shirley Bailey
Front: Ray Schrum, Jim Ansorge


Orlo Nissen 16th birthday


Fred Grau cultivating corn with his F-12 Farmall tractor


Roy Struve with his 4-H bull

Iowa No. 7

Back: Jean Blum, Phyllis Pfoltner, Patricia Surridge
Front: Gaillard Frank, Wesley Nulle

Washington No. 4

Back: Norma Tank, Delores Rix, Betty Lou Bauer
Front: Clifford Tank, Della Rohde, Donald Rix

Ewoldt No. 5

Back: Allan Grage, Wilma Gruhn, Monica Smith - teacher, Marilyn (Grage) Avey
Front: Delton Gruhn, Marlyn Gruhn, Jeanette Gruhn, Mary Jane Grage

Jr High BB - Won 11 Lost 4

Front: Harold Christie, Bobby Kuhl, Amos Lohmeier, Ludwig Hammer
Second: Frank Miller, Bob Rostermundt, Jim Rowedder, Lyle Schrum, Coach Jack Hall
Back: Harold Neal, Wayne Witt, Frank Bliefert, Lyle Hoffmann, Warren Petersen


Edward Moore, Russell Frank, Dorothy (Moore) Strosahl - grandkids of Brick & Bertha Moore


Warren Timmerman MHS diploma


Glen "Red" Struve MHS 1938


Amos Kusel MHS 1938


April 21, 1938


May 12, 1938


Rober-Wehrmann calendar


Valentine's card to Bernice (Karstens) Schroeder