A. A.'s Country-wide News Circuit

San Diego, Cal., reports A.A. really growing, with Wednesday open meetings in the Chamber of Commerce auditorium, which seats 500. The sixth anniversary dinner, November 6, will be attended by several A.A.s with "six years of real living." Formation of a Norwegian group with the A.A. program in that language is reported. The Bronx County, N. Y., Group celebrated its second anniversary with a dinner attended by 300 members and friends. A Catholic priest was guest speaker. From Sacramento, Cal., comes a report of more than 200 members and their families attending the October picnic of the organization with many present from Sacramento, Fresno, San Jose, Stockton, San Joaquin county and Roseville. In addition to building its own organization up to 80 members, the branch has helped from clubs in Yuba City, Marysville and Reno. About 85 members of the Rockland County Group, Suffern, N. Y., celebrated the first anniversary recently with a New York speaker. A member of the Austin, Tex., Group found A.A. an occupational hazard, for while he was talking to a man in an Abilene apartment two men who have been convicted and fined as bootleggers came to the place and started a fight ending in a 20-shot gun battle. The Wichita Falls, Tex., Group reports that body doing well with 12 members at present.