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James Lewis Jenkins
James Lewis Jenkins, of Berea, Virginia, formerly of Rappahannock county, died at the Mary Washington Hospital, Fredericksburg, Thursday, October 15 after a long period of declining'health.
Mr. Jenkins, 72, is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lillie Brown Jenkins, of Berea, Ya.; six daughters, two sons, and one brother, Frank Jenkins of Sperryville.
Funeral services for Mr. Jenkins were conducted Sunday, October 18 from the Sperryville Baptist Church with interment in the family section of the Sperryville Cemetery. Rev. J. II. Dailey conducted the last rites.
Active pallbearers were Lum Jenk:ns, Frank Jenkins, Garnett Pierce,
Ashton Wade, John L. Taylor and Lloyd Mozingo.
New Highway Post Office
Begins Operation Nov. 2
Representative Burr P. Harrison said today that Rappahannock, County should experience an improvement in mail service when the new Rcanoke-Martinsburg highway post office begins operations November 2. ^
The new route was one of two proposed by Mr. Harrison last February, when he asked the Post Office Department to make a survey of mail transportation throughout the Seventh Congressional District with a view to speedier service.
“I am very glad that the Post Office Department has decided to provide the Seventh District and adjacent areas with an additional highway post office route,” Mr. Harrison said. “This has been an urgent need of the communities whose mail- movement was impaired when certain Norfolk and Western trains were discontinued.”
The trains carried railway post offices which sorted mail enroute. Truck routes which replaced the trains carried the mail to the end of the line for sorting, even though some of it was addressed t® the next town on the truck route, postal officials pointed out to Mr. Harrison.
The new highway post office will restore sorting enroute. The big buslike vehicles will provide one trip in each direction daily, except Sunday. They will meet in Harrisonburg and exchange crews, so that neither crew will have to be- away from home overnight
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