Eldred G. Smith · 1960 April General Conference · 1960-04-04
Heavyweight pass: located talk in OCR pages 65-67 (Third Session, Monday morning, April 4, 1960), following Elder Levi Edgar Young and preceding Elder Sterling W. Sill. Speaker header in OCR reads 'ELDER ELDRED G. SMITH / Patriarch to the Church.' Supplied title 'Patriarchal Blessings' from the talk's central subject (the office and purpose of a patriarchal blessing) since the OCR shows no title given in the program. Removed running heads/page numbers; body confirmed against OCR with no substantive changes needed. Exact page anchor is an estimate (n67); could not verify precise Internet Archive page-image number from this sandbox. Could not trigger a fresh Wayback Machine capture from this environment.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; confirmed exact date, session, and calling; supplied descriptive title; renamed file from placeholder opening-words filename.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: Internet Archive source (conferencereport1960a) verified as working source per orchestrator instruction; page-by-page collation against OCR witness confirmed talk boundaries (follows Elder Levi Edgar Young, precedes Elder Sterling W. Sill, both in the Third Session, Monday morning, April 4, 1960); speaker confirmed as Elder Eldred G. Smith, Patriarch to the Church (distinct from Joseph Fielding Smith of the Council of the Twelve, verified independently via each talk's OCR speaker header) per OCR speaker header.
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