OBITUARIES

'William C. Beal, former owner of Builders Supply & Lumber ComPanY, Tucson, Arizona, died last month after a brief illness.

Mr. Beal had recently been living in retirement, however he still held a post as honorary director of the Arizona Retail Lumber & Builders Supply Association.

He served as National Dealer Director to the National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association and in 1956 was cochairman of the National Convention of Operation Home Improvement which was held in Tucson.

Kurt Grunwald, owner of Western Lumber Company in Daly City, died in Stanford Hospital after a brief confinement on February 1. He was 61,

Mr. Grunwald was born in Germany and originally entered the lumber field in an eastern European mining district known as Upper Silesia. From that point, he traveled eitensively and became active in the export market as well as the European market. He left Europe during 1938 for the Philippines where he became associated vrith the Philippine Match Company. He remained with that firm throughout the Japanese occupation and established Grunwald & Company in Manila following the war. After several years in Manila where he was active in exporting Philippine mahogany lumber to the United States, Mr. Grunwald moved to the Bay Area where he was successively the owner of a laundry and later a women's wear shop.

During 1d$, he joined Victor Wolf Lumber Sales in San Francisco as a comrnission salesman and a few years later became a partner with Wolf in Western Lumber Company. The partnership was terminated in 1958. with both men continuing their own businesses and Mr. Grunwald retaining the Western Lumber ComPany name.

Mr. Grunwald leaves his widow, Lotte, of their Daly City home, and two teenage children, Roger H. and Cecille J. Grunwald.

Lyman W. Wood, eng'ineer in charge of structural research at the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory and an internationally known wood standards expert, died January 7, at tlr'e age of 66. He had retired from active duty December 30.

Mr. Wood joined the laboratory staff as a research engineer in 1943, and $'as assigned to investigations of the properties of woods used in aircraft of World War II. For the past two years Mr. Wood had been chairman of Committee D-7 on Wood of the American Society for Testing and Materials. In that position he guided the committee's re-evaluation of basic engineering stresses for U.S. commercial woods. He also \ilorked closely with the American Lumber Standards Committee, notably as an adviser on problems on revision of size standards for softwood lumber. He also had given similar assistance to the National Forest Products Association and the American Plywood Association in the development of standards, specifications.