David O. McKay · 1957 April General Conference · 1957-04-07
OCR ingestion with auto-cleaning and paragraph reflowing against the Internet Archive conferencereport1957a scan. Archive snapshot pending.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the Internet Archive conferencereport1957a scan/OCR; confirmed body text, date/session metadata, and talk boundaries against the surrounding running heads.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Ingestion of a missing discourse (McKay's closing remarks, Third Day Afternoon Meeting) omitted from the earlier heavyweight pass over this conference. Rebuilt page reading order from conferencereport1957a's DjVu XML word-coordinate data (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py); confirmed this is McKay speaking continuously as presiding officer immediately following Elder Marion D. Hanks's address (already ingested as 1957-04-hanks-the-seventy-are-traditionally-minutemen-i-have.md) through the conference's adjournment sine die, distinguishing it from a misOCR'd 'PRESIDENT DAVID O. McKAY' running head over the tail of Hanks's own talk (leaf 129) and from purely administrative adjournment/broadcast-schedule announcements elsewhere in the volume (correctly excluded as non-discourse per docs/ingestion.md). De-hyphenated and reflowed against the scan text. Renumbered talk_order across all existing 1957-04 files to seat this as the conference's final talk (ahead of the Church of the Air Broadcast appendix entry), matching the 1956-10/1962-04/1962-10/1969-10 precedent for reinserting missing McKay discourses.
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