Show Uintah County Leads in ill Number N Of Divorces There was nearly one divorce granted for every two marriages performed in Uintah County during 1946 1046 This startling Information was disclosed this week by Judge William Stanley Dunford of the Fourth Judicial District who said that Uintah County has the highest divorce rate in the district Uintah County's divorce rate in 1946 1046 was per cent of its marriage rate This compares with a rate of per cent In Duchesne County and per percent percent cent In Utah County the other two counties in the Fourth Ju Ju- Ju Judicial Judicial District Statistics compiled by Judge I Dunford for five year periods over the past thirty years dis dis- disclose dis- dis disclose close that until 1941 Uintah County had a fairly low rate of divorce However during the five year period 1946 1941 the divorce rate jumped jumped from per cent to per cent The Increase ise in divorces in the county is graphically graphIcally illustrated ed by the following statistics compiled by Judge Dunford which show the percent divorces as compared with marriages by five year periods 1916 1916 81 8 1 per percent percent cent 1921 1921 per cent cent- cent 1926 pr cent 1931 1931 per percent percent cent 1936 1936 1415 per cent 1941 per cent 1946 1946 per per- percent cent l I |