A.A.'s Country-wide News Circuit

The Calcasieu Parish Group of A.A. with membership from Lake Charles, Sulphur and Maplewood, La., has been formed with other towns nearby listed as Vinton, De Ridder, De Quincy, Kinder and Jennings. Meetings are at the Charleston Hotel in Lake Charles, Room 201 at 7:30 on Thursday. The phone number is Lake Charles 4287 and the post office box 2584, Maplewood. Members of the Alconon Group of Ft. Wayne, Ind., who number about 30 and who have been meeting at the Y.M.C.A. on Wednesday evenings and Sunday afternoons, have announced the organization of a group of five of their former members at Van Wert, Ohio, 35 miles away. Another happy and active group is reported at Bellingham, Wash., where four members got together in January, and at the time of reporting had at least a dozen on the active list. They, too, have had calls from Everett and other nearby groups. A new group called Riverside recently held its first meeting at Blessed Sacrament School, 147 West 70th Street, New York, N. Y.