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r" ; t/' 9 April 1958 MEMORANDUM FOR; THE RECORD SUBJECT : Trip Report, Visit to 7 April 1953 1. The purpose of this trio was to. make arrangements for closing out thejajgl project,0§S$^ bef l gWeaarople previous notice that ouch was likely to b® the intent of the visit, = and he pre- pared him* elf accordingly. : 2. £Lwae^3cpj^iAedJQ^|MMMN^ Ch 'ari >t AVOuld not bo ' possible to carry over .funds beyond" the end of the current fiscal year. Therefore all work would have to be completed and all pay- - meats made prior to 30 June. This deadline appeared acceptable to him, and it was agreed that Imold make my final visit there to^ ^ receive reports and attend to final oefcails on 16 JuuOl '^^jEjidid not have a current financial report, but ho csiwnai<xi that funds currently cn hand would be about sufficient for remaining expenditures, No agreed to send the Society within the next 10 days a more exact state- ment of current - balance and estimated remaining expenditures. I tried to impress on him strongly that transfer of aoditional funds and/ or return of unexpended funds must bo completed well befor e the end of the fiscal year. 3. Of the 30..'cases'"called for 'in the original design 13 have _ been completed (but only 4 have been transcribed from the_tap.es). In_i addition there are 8 cases in progress (of which two are already in interview and 6 are worked up to the point of haying the lists of questions... prepared). It was agreed that to meet the deadline we would have to limit the design to those 26 cases. 4. It is apparent is so involved in the administrative problems of the project that he is not paying any attention to the results. Since to date only 4 cases have been transcribed there is no way of telling what is coming out of itl I assume there were no dramatic reactions, be- cause the interviewers would have lei him know about them had they emerged. It is possible, however, that our own analysis of the data may dredge up something of value, although X am dubious on this point, 5* gave m® hio usual long involved talk on the difficulties he had encountered which account dor the delays. He also talked at some V"*iT