A.A.'s Country-wide News Circuit

Members of the Atlanta, Ga., Group held joint meetings with three other Georgia Groups in Griffin, LaGrange and Thomaston recently with from 20 to 30 of the Atlanta Group making each trip. In Griffin and Thomaston the meetings were held in homes of members and in LaGrange at the First Methodist church, whose pastor, Rev. Charles S. Forester, attended the Yale Clinic seminar last summer. The groups in Griffin and Thomaston were both formed recently and being only about 30 miles apart, plan to alternate attendance at each other's meetings. An Intergroup Hudson Valley meeting at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., heard speakers from eight Hudson Valley towns, Kingston, Newburgh, Middletown, Liberty, Peekskill, Ossining, Hudson and Poughkeepsie. The March of Time movie "Problem Drinkers" was shown to the attendance of over 150. Poughkeepsie speakers later went to Liberty to conduct a meeting.