CR April 1967

THE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

Official Report Of The 137th Annual General Conference Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints Sermons and proceedings of April 6, 8 and 9, 1967, from the Tabernacle on Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah Joseph Anderson, Clerk of the Conference

The One Hundred Thirty-seventh Annual Conference of The Church of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints convened in the Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, Thursday, April 6, 1967, at 10:00 a. m.

The general sessions of the Conference were held at 10:00 a. m. and 2:00 p.m., Thursday, April 6, 1967, and Saturday, April 8, and Sunday, April 9, 1967. The General Priesthood meeting was held Saturday, April 8, 1967 at 7:00 p.m.

The proceedings of all sessions of the Conference were given extensive coverage in the United States and Canada over radio and television stations. The opening session, broadcast direct, was released also by video tape to many television stations in eastern and central parts of the United States and also in Hawaii and Alaska.

Both Saturday sessions were rebroadcast over KSL Radio, KIRO Radio, Seattle; and WRFM, New York, the latter starting midnight Sunday morning.

For the first time a radio broadcast of the Sunday morning session of the Conference was sent overseas by the "Lani Bird" Satellite in orbit 22,000 miles above the Pacific Ocean. This historic broadcast was heard in Hawaii, its destination, six-tenths of a second after the voices were uttered in the Tabernacle, after traveling over 100,000 miles through space.

Many televisions and radio stations throughout western United States carried proceedings of the Sunday sessions. The full proceedings were re-broadcast to distant places by Radio Station KSL, Salt Lake City, KIRO Radio, Seattle, and WRFM at New York, from midnight, Monday, April 10.

The General Priesthood meeting held in the Tabernacle Saturday evening from 7:00 p.m., April 8, was relayed by closed-circuit broadcast to about 95,000 members of the Priesthood assembled in approximately 600 locations in the United States and Canada.

Direct radio broadcasts, video tape television broadcasts, and broadcasts in translation and by short-wave carried the Conference extensively throughout North America, and by short-wave over Station WNYW, in English and some foreign languages, to listeners in Europe, South America, Central America, Africa and parts of Asia.

The opening session of the One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Annual Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints convened in the Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Thursday, April 6, 1967 at 10:00 a. m. President David O. McKay presided, and his counselor President Hugh B. Brown, conducted the service.

President McKay was present and presided at each of the morning sessions except Saturday. He listened to the services of all other sessions including the General Priesthood meeting. He presided at all sessions. Under his direction his counselors, Presidents Hugh B. Brown, N. Eldon Tanner and Joseph Fielding Smith conducted the services assigned to each of them.

Elder Robert R. McKay, son of President McKay, read the President's addresses to the conference in the opening session, Thursday morning, the General Priesthood meeting, Saturday evening, and the closing session, Sunday afternoon.

Music for the Thursday sessions of the Conference was furnished by the Brigham Young University Combined Choruses. In the morning, Ralph Woodward was the conductor, Robert Cundick, organist. In the afternoon, Robert Downs was conductor, and Roy M. Darley organist.

The Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir, under the direction of Richard P. Condie, conductor, with Alexander Schreiner at the organ, furnished the music for the Saturday morning session.

In the afternoon the Latter-day Saint Association Choir of the University of Utah, with Jay E. Welch, conductor and Roy M. Darley, organist, furnished the music for the session.

Men of the Tabernacle Choir, Richard P. Condie, conductor and Robert Cundick, organist, furnished the music for the General Priesthood meeting, Saturday evening.

Music for both sessions Sunday, April 9, 1967 was furnished by the Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir, Richard P. Condie, conductor, Jay E. Welch, conductor for a portion of the program and Robert Cundick, organist.

Elder Joseph Anderson was Clerk of the Conference.

General Authorities of the Church Present

The First Presidency: David O. McKay, Hugh B. Brown, Nathan Eldon Tanner, and Joseph Fielding Smith. President McKay attended all sessions of the Conference except the Friday Saturday afternoon and evening and Sunday afternoon sessions. Elder Thorpe B. Isaacson attended sessions of the Conference.

The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles: Joseph Fielding Smith, , 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, Boyd K. Packer, Bernard P. Brockbank, James A. Cullimore.

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 and Earl E. Olson, assistants.

Members of the Church Board of Education; Church educational authorities and supervisors.

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.