A.A.'s Country-wide News Circuit

"Reciprocal A.A." is a new plan being tried by groups in the Long Beach, Cal., area, meaning that on a given date another group is requested to take over the meeting with leader, co-leader, speakers and others from the visiting group. Since there are some 80 to 100 groups within easy driving distance it is regarded as being possible to set up a long time program avoiding too frequent appearance of the same speakers. . . . The East Bay Group, which reports this plan to The Grapevine now has grown to 34. Since there are only 103 chairs available at the Naples hotel dining room and attendance is usually more than that, a set of "wall stretchers" or a division of the group may soon be necessary.