CR October 1966

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

Official Report Of The 136th Semiannual General Conference Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints Sermons and proceedings of Sept. 30, Oct. 1-2, 1965, from the Tabernacle on Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah Joseph Anderson, Clerk of the Conference

The One Hundred Thirty-sixth 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, September 30 and October 1 and 2, 1966.

The general sessions of the Conference were held at 10:00 a. m. and 2 p.m. Friday, September 30 and Saturday, October 1 and Sunday, October 2, 1966. The General Priesthood meeting was held Saturday, October 1, 1966 at 7 p.m.

The proceedings of all sessions of the Conference were given extensive coverage in the United States and Canada over a net work of more than 200 television and radio stations, coast to coast, originating with KSL Radio and Television in Salt Lake City.

Rebroadcasts of all sessions of the Conference were released over KSL in many parts of North America, including the United States, Alaska, Canada Mexico, Hawaii and other islands of the Pacific. Over Radio KIRO at Seattle the conference was broadcast to New Zealand and Australia.

The proceedings of the General Priesthood meeting Saturday evening, were relayed by closed-circuit broadcast originating in the Salt Lake Tabernacle to members of the priesthood assembled in 471 separate meeting places in the United States and Canada, where an estimated 85,000 men of the priesthood attended.

The Sunday morning session was broadcast to all parts of Europe, to many places in Asia, Africa, South America, Central America, Mexico and Caribbean countries by International Short-wave Radio Station WNYW.

CBS network carried the Sunday morning national broadcast of the Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir and Organ from 8:35 to 9:00 a. m.

Members of the Church assembled Sunday morning heard the Sunday morning session of the Conference in English in Bristol, Reading, London, York, Durham and Manchester, England, in Paisley and Kirkcaldy, Scotland; Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, and Belfast, Ireland. By television or radio, tape recorded translations of the Conference in Spanish and Portuguese were released by stations in Santiago, Chili; Lima, Cuzco, Ica, Peru; Cochambamba, Bolivia; Curitiba, Cacador, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Montevideo, Melo and Artigas, Uruguay; and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Direct translations of conference sessions in the German language were received over oceanic cables by members of the Church in German, assembled in chapels at Hamburg, Essen, Stuttgart, Munich and Darmstadt. Servicemen and missionaries in Germany received the conference in English.

The opening session of the One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Semi-Annual Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints convened in the Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Friday, September 30, 1966 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 session, except Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons. His counselors, President Hugh B. Brown N. Eldon Tanner and Joseph Fielding Smith conducted the services under his direction.

Music for the Friday sessions of the Conference was furnished by the Oahu Stake Samoan Choir of Laie, Hawaii Mauga Tapusoa conducting and Roy M. Darley at the organ.

At the morning session, Saturday, The Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir, under the direction of Richard P. Condie, with Alexander Schreiner at the organ, furnished the music. In the afternoon Relief Society Singing Mothers from stakes of the Northwest furnished the music. Sister Florence Jepperson Madsen was the conductor. Robert Cundick was at the organ.

Men of the Tabernacle Choir under the direction of Richard P. Condie, with Alexander Schreiner at the organ furnished the music for the General Priesthood meeting.

Music for the Sunday sessions was furnished by the Tabernacle Choir, Richard P. Condie, conductor at both sessions, Jay E. Welch at the afternoon session. Alexander Schreiner was organist at the morning sessions and Robert Cundick in the afternoon.

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 and Sunday afternoon sessions. Elder Thorpe B. Isaacson was absent because of illness.

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, 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.