Oscar A. Kirkham · 1954 October General Conference · 1954-10-02
Officially published Conference Report; proofread against IA scan conferencereport1954sa (leaves 45-46, printed pp. 45-46). 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 45-46).
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 45-46, printed pp. 45-46) confirms Elder Oscar A. Kirkham (First Council of the Seventy), Second Day (Saturday, October 2, 1954) morning meeting, fourth speaker (following President Clark, Bishop Isaacson, and Elder Thomas E. McKay, none in this batch) and preceding Elder Delbert L. Stapley. Fixed OCR misread of drop-cap 'I' rendered as '1' in the opening ('1 humbly pray' to 'I humbly pray'); body otherwise matches scan verbatim. Set exact date, calling, session, and talk_order (talk_order reflects actual sequence position in the session, including speakers whose talks are not part of this file batch). Corrected title's leading '1' to 'I'.
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