Stephen L Richards · 1954 October General Conference · 1954-10-02
Officially published Conference Report; proofread against IA scan conferencereport1954sa (leaves 79-82, printed pp. 79-82). 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 79-82).
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 79-82, printed pp. 79-82) confirms President Stephen L Richards (First Counselor in the First Presidency), Second Day (Saturday, October 2, 1954) evening priesthood meeting, fourth speaker (after William Noble Waite, Elray L. Christiansen, and President J. Reuben Clark, Jr.'s priesthood address, the last of which is not part of this file batch and appears not yet ingested as a separate file), immediately following Clark and preceding President David O. McKay's closing remarks. Body matches scan verbatim; no missing text. Set exact date, calling, session, and talk_order (talk_order 4 reflects Richards' actual position in the full session sequence, including the Clark talk not in this batch).
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