CR October 1964

THE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-FOURTH SEMIANNUAL GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

Official Report Of The 134th Semiannual General Conference Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints Sermons and proceedings of October 2-4, 1964, from the Tabernacle on Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah Joseph Anderson, Clerk of the Conference

The One Hundred Thirty-Fourth Semi-Annual Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints convened in the Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 2, 3, and 4, 1964.

The general sessions of the Conference were held at 10:00 a. m. and 2:00 p.m. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and the General Priesthood Meeting was held Saturday evening, October 3, at 7:00 p.m.

Conference again was widely heard and seen in the United States and parts of Canada over 155 television and 30 radio stations, giving time and facilities to bring the Conference to millions without charge.

The Friday morning session was carried by direct cable to Montevideo, Uruguay and transmitted in Spanish over Radio CARVE and Radio RIVERA and beamed by shortwave to all of South America and Spain Sunday afternoon.

For the first time, this October one session of Conference was televised in South America over Channel 10-SATAE, Montevideo, Uruguay to viewers of the Rio De La Plata area. The telecast was made from film of the Saturday morning session last April.

Spanish translation of the Saturday morning session was broadcast for the first time by tape at Fajardo, Puerto Rico and beamed to a northeast section of Mexico from Mission, Texas.

Jet airliner carried tape recordings of the Saturday morning session to Europe for transmission in both English and German over Radio Luxembourg, and was heard throughout Europe and Great Britain Wednesday and Friday evenings following the Conference.

The five WRUL shortwave transmitters near Boston broadcast Saturday and Sunday morning sessions direct to Europe, Africa, and South America. In addition, the session of Saturday morning was broadcast in both Spanish and Portuguese to all of South America, and in German to Europe Sunday afternoon.

For the second time, daily sessions of Saturday and Sunday were broadcast during early morning hours over KIRO Radio at Seattle, these broadcasts being heard by members of the Church in New Zealand, Australia, and many islands of the Pacific.

Daily sessions of the three-day Conference again were recorded then broadcast over KSL-Radio during early morning hours to islands of the Pacific, Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean area and many states within the United States.

To bring Conference to a number of members abroad, films were provided Missions and Stakes for showing in Ward and Branch gatherings in Australia, Germany, Holland, France, Great Britain, and South America Sound track translations in German, French, Dutch, and Spanish were provided respective foreign speaking areas.

The General Priesthood meeting was relayed by closed circuit to members of the Priesthood gathered in the Assembly Hall and in 400 separate gatherings from coast to coast and in Canada.

President David O. McKay's messages to the Conference were read by his sons: to the opening session, by Elder Robert R. McKay; and to the Priesthood Meeting, Saturday evening, by Elder David Lawrence McKay.

A full report of the Sunday morning Tabernacle Choir and Organ Broadcast and the CBS Church of the Air Broadcast is included in this record.

Elder Joseph Anderson was clerk of the Conference.

General Authorities of the Church Present

The First Presidency: Hugh B. Brown and Nathan Eldon Tanner, First and Second Counselors respectively. President David O. McKay was confined to his apartment on account of illness, where he watched and listened to the proceedings of the Conference by television.

The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles: Joseph Fielding Smith, Harold B. Lee, Spencer W. Kimball, Ezra Taft Benson, Mark E. Petersen, Delbert L. Stapley, Marion G. Romney, LeGrand Richards, Richard L. Evans, Howard W. Hunter, Gordon B. Hinckley, Thomas S. Monson.

Patriarch to the Church: Eldred G. Smith.

Assistants to the Twelve Apostles: Alma Sonne, ElRay L. Christiansen, John Longden, Sterling W. Sill, Henry D. Taylor, William J. Critchlow, Jr. Alvin R. Dyer, Franklin D. Richards, Theodore M. Burton, Thorpe B. Isaacson, Boyd K. Packer, Bernard P. Brockbank.

The First Council of the Seventy: Antoine R. Ivins, Seymour Dilworth Young, Milton R. Hunter, Bruce R. McConkie, Marion D. Hanks, A. Theodore Tuttle, Paul Harold Dunn.

Presiding Bishopric: John H. Vandenberg, Robert L. Simpson, Victor L. Brown.

General Officers and Other Authorities Present

Church Historian and Recorder: Joseph Fielding Smith, with A. William Lund, Assistant.

Members of the General Church Priesthood Committees.

Members of the Church Board of Education and the Acting Chancellor of the Church School System; also Directors and Associate Directors of Institutes, and Seminary Instructors.

Presidents of Stakes and their Counselors, Presidents of Temples, Patriarchs quorum presidencies, and members of the Melchizedek and Aaronic Priesthood.

Auxiliary Officers, General, Stake, and Ward, from all parts of the Church.