William J. Critchlow Jr. · 1955 October General Conference · 1955-10-01
Transcribed from the official printed Conference Report of the One Hundred Twenty-sixth Semiannual (October 1955) General Conference, digitized by the Church History Library and hosted at the Internet Archive (item conferencereport1955sa), pp. 83-86. Reading order rebuilt from the item's DjVu OCR word coordinates (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py). Never previously ingested into the vault; flagged missing by the 2026 heavyweight review of this conference and ingested in this pass. President McKay's introduction identifies him as "President William J. Critchlow, president of the South Ogden Stake," matching the printed calling line under his name; his talk title is supplied from his own opening remark that he was asked to speak "on the subject, 'How to Improve the Reverence and Order in the Chapels of our Stakes.'" Running heads, page numbers, and leaf markers removed; de-hyphenated line breaks and reflowed paragraphs; corrected isolated OCR character errors (e.g. "]R" to "JR."; the drop-cap opening "| Y DEAR BRETHREN" to "MY DEAR BRETHREN") without altering wording.
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Light review: in-context proofread against the heavyweight collation already on file; no additional wording changes needed.
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Ingested from the conferencereport1955sa DjVu XML reading order (leaf 83-86) to fill a gap flagged in the prior heavyweight review pass (progress/reports/conference-reports/1955-10.md), which found this General Priesthood Meeting address never ingested. Collated directly against the reconstructed page text; verbatim from opening to closing 'Amen' with only mechanical OCR/hyphenation cleanup, no paraphrase.
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