Ezra Taft Benson · 1954 October General Conference · 1954-10-03
Officially published Conference Report; proofread against IA scan conferencereport1954sa (leaves 118-123, printed pp. 118-123). CHL catalog record for October 1954 could not be verified this session (client-rendered SPA, no browser-tool access); IA retained as top-level source per docs/review.md.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness against the extended scan range (leaves 118-123).
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: CHL catalog record for October 1954 could not be verified this session (client-rendered SPA, no browser-tool access); IA scan conferencereport1954sa kept as retained top-level source per docs/review.md. Page-by-page collation against the scan (leaves 118-123, printed pp. 118-123) confirms Elder Ezra Taft Benson (Council of the Twelve), Third Day (Sunday, October 3, 1954) afternoon meeting, first speaker following the sustaining of General Authorities and General Officers (presented by President J. Reuben Clark, Jr.), preceding Elder Bruce R. McConkie. Fixed a running-head bleed artifact mid-quotation ('talk straight, ELDER BRUCE R. McCONKIE not about what is expedient' to 'talk straight, not about what is expedient'), removing the next-page running head that had been OCR'd into the body text. Body otherwise matches scan verbatim. Set exact date, calling, session, and talk_order.
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