Wendell B. Mendenhall · 1955 April General Conference · 1955-04-02
Officially published Conference Report; proofread against IA scan conferencereport1955a (leaves 3-7, printed pp. 3-7). CHL catalog record for April 1955 could not be verified this session (client-rendered SPA; Chrome extension unreachable this session); IA retained as top-level source per docs/review.md. Discourse appears on pp. 3-7. Title is supplied (Conference Report discourses of this era were untitled).
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 full scan range (leaves 3-7).
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: CHL catalog record for April 1955 could not be verified this session (client-rendered SPA, Chrome extension unreachable); IA scan conferencereport1955a kept as retained top-level source per docs/review.md. Page-by-page collation against the scan (leaves 3-7, printed pp. 3-7) confirms Elder Wendell B. Mendenhall (President of the San Joaquin Stake), First Day General Priesthood Meeting (Saturday, April 2, 1955), first speaker, following President McKay's introductory remarks and preceding Elder Henry A. Matis. Body matches scan verbatim; removed a duplicate ingestion fragment (file 1955-04-wendell-president-mckay-has-finished-his-tour-will.md, leaf 6 onward) that re-OCR'd the same passage under a garbled speaker slug — deleted rather than kept as a separate talk. Set exact date, calling, session, and talk_order.
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