A.A's Country-wide News Circuit

The Roswell, N. M. Morning Dispatch has recently published under "Sidelights on the News" an article discussing the 12 Steps and telling of the local group. . . Half a column in a recent issue of a Richmond, Cal., paper is devoted to A.A. ideas. . . A Seattle, Wash., paper tells of police plans for a rehabilitation farm for chronic alcoholics with A.A. included among agencies cooperating. . . From Galena, Kans., comes announcement of the opening of the Tri-State Clinic there with Dr. Frank W.James, Galena physician in charge and the Tri-State Group working with him. . . Houston, Tex., papers carried lengthy, favorable advance notices and reports of a talk on A.A. by Dr. Andrew W. Tomb, West Texas physician who told of the organization's work in bringing persons back to useful lives. . . A story of the first annual picnic of the Winona, Minn., Group was carried on the first page of The Republican and reported about 50 present.