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December 1947

A.A.'s Country-wide News Circuit

Open Meeting Draws 1,000

A turnout of about 1,000 in a city of 27,000 population is a source of pride to the Winona, Minn. Group which held its first annual open meeting in the high school recently. Representatives of the clergy, judicial and medical professions as well as A.A.s spoke to an audience which represented a good cross section of the city, all of them supporting the A.A. movement. Comments from those attending the meeting indicated that an impression was made which will do an immeasurable amount of good in educating the public in the problems of chronic alcoholism and the efforts of A.A. to reach the alcoholic. More than 150 A.A.s from Dubuque, Waterloo and Cedar Rapids, Ia.; Eau Claire, LaCrosse and Sparta, Wis.; Rochester, Faribault and Owatonna, Minn.; helped swell the crowd. The Winona A.A.s used considerable newspaper advertising space and received much favorable comment in the columns of the Republic Herald, local paper.

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