The man who coined the term "ZIP code" to describe the U.S. Postal Service's five-digit Zonal Improvement Plan and was instrumental in devising and implementing the campaign that brought it into universal use starting in 1962, died Monday in Arlington County at 84.
D. Jamison Cain, a former newspaper reporter whom the Kennedy administration named deputy special assistant to the Postmaster General for public affairs in 1961, will be honored at a funeral Mass today, Friday, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Agnes Catholic Church, 1914 N. Randolph St., in Arlington.
Burial will follow in Columbia Gardens Cemetery in Arlington.
Mr. Cain, a Sumter, S.C., native who had lived in Arlington since 1959, worked in public affairs for the post office for 25 years.
After attending college in Cullman, Ala., and serving in the Army during World War II, he reported for The State in Columbia, S.C., The Charleston Evening Post and The Camden Chronicle.
From 1955 to 1960, he served as Washington bureau chief for Sims News Bureau, which covered the Capital for about 40 newspapers, radio and television stations in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.
His wife of 42 years, Arleen Iverson Cain, died in 1999.
Mr. Cain was the father of Richmond Times-Dispatch Politics Editor Andrew Cain of Richmond.
Survivors also include two other sons, David Cain of Atlanta and Paul Cain of Nashville, Tenn.; and a grandson.
Ellen Robertson is a staff writer at the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
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