Fourth Son Of Local Family Enters Service
The four sons, the only children of Mr. and Mrs. Bill (William Frederick) Schrum, are now in the service of their country.
Three are in the navy.

Arthur Schrum, chief yeoman, has seen ten years of service, most of it spent on a convoy in the Atlantic. He visited many countries while engaged in this work, among them Iceland, Greenland and Russia. Arthur, now 29 years old, is stationed at New Orleans, La., in a recruiting office.

Wayne Schrum, 22, has seen several years of service in the army. He is now attending school at Sioux Falls, S. D. He is a radio technician.

Lyle, better known as Junior Schrum, is attending University of Michigan at Ann Arbor under the navy V-12 program. Junior, 18, was a member of Manning's championship basketball team for four years, graduating from Manning high school in 1943.

Burton Schrum who has been in the employ of DuPonts at Clinton, Iowa, until called into the navy recently, is the last of the boys to enter the service. He is 26 and is taking boot training at Farragut, Idaho.
All the Schrum boys have been outstanding in athletics.
Junior attended Drake university on a scholarship and was on the Drake basketball starting lineup.

Manning Monitor article - 1945
John B. Schrum Is Home From Pacific
Pearl Harbor, T. H. John B. Schrum, husband of Mrs. Betty J. Schrum, of 1004 Elm, Manning, is one of 764 navy veterans returning to the states aboard the USS Bergen, an attack transport of the "Magic Carpet" fleet.
This ship left Manila, January 3, The USS Bergen, is one of the navy auxiliaries which kept supply lines close behind the U.S. sea, land and air offensive throughout the Pacific war.