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vJT TA studies bids for subway line that the contract would be awarded in about two months. Two other sections of the line have been completed, two are under construction and four remain to be bid. The Sutphin Blvd. station is to include direct access to the Long Island Rail Road terminal. The former BMT Jamaica el will be routed along the lower of two levels and the Queens Blvd.

IND trains along the upper level. By WILLIAM BUTLER The Transit Authority is studying bids and hopes to start construction this summer on the fifth segment of the Archer Ave. subway line in Jamaica. The work, plus four more segments to be started in the coming year, are on schedule for a targeted start of service by January 1985, according to the TA The latest section of the project involves the route from 144th Place to 147th including the Sutphin Blvd. station.

Bids received A bid of $45,251,350 was received from the Slattery Associates Inc. and Argrett Enterprises and a bid of $58,584,947 was received from Schiavone Construction Corp. and Delma Engineering Corp. A spokesman for the TA said that a decision was expected in- about two weeks when the TA's choice would be submitted for approval by city, state and federal agencies. The spokesman said it was expected one of the keystones to the rejuvenation of the Jamaica business district.

The newest section, which links a completed section to the east and work under way to the west, wiir be built by digging from the surface rather than tunnel ing, a practice followed in most of the previous work. The Archer Ave. subway is designed to link the BMT elevated and the Queens Blvd. IXD lines to a former Long Island Rail Road right-of-wav to Springfield Gardens. Completion of the link into Southeast Queens is tentatively scheduled for later in the 1980s, but funding and a firm timetable remains to be worked out -v Sections from 147th to 151st Sts.

and from 160th St under the LIRR tracks to the Springfield Gardens right-of-way at South St. were completed last year. Two sections running from 91st Ave. to 144th Place are more than 50 complete. The Parsons Blvd.

station including tunnel from 151st St. to 160th St is almost 25 complete. Vital Jamaica line Completion of the Archer Ave. line is considered Moon disciple sends lettter of love By JACK LEAHY "Hope you are well and enjoying spring and looking forward to the coming summer! I would like to introduce myself and let you know something about me and what I hope to contribute in your neighborhood." That innocuous-sounding salutation is from a self-introductory letter by a member of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church which has alarmed Bayside residents who fear the Moonies are coming to "brainwash" their children. The letter was signed by Ann Welch, 1 It ft 2 firemen hurt in blaze i Two firemen were injured yester day fighting a fire which heavily damaged a Kew Gardens Hill luncheonette.

Fire officials declared the blaze suspicious when they found the rear door of 75-47 Main St. open. Firemen Arthur Malm and John B. Horan were treated at Queens Hospital Center, Jamaica, for cuts and a leg sprain respectively and released. The fire was discovered shortly before 2 a.m.

Unification Church is the victim of a "bad press." "The initial reaction of many people to the Unification Church is based' on what they read in the newspapers," Welch said. "Unfortunately, that is an unfair representation of who are and what we are doing." she protested. However, the Rev. N.J. L'Heureux, a United Methodist minister and the director of the Queens Federation of Churches, described the Unification Church as a "chameleon that takes the color of whatever church is in the com munity" in order to win converts to Moon's message.

'Several years ago, the National Council of Churches denied membership to the Unification Church because it was not a Christian body," said the Rev. L'Heureux. "The fact that youthful members (of the Moonies) are required to live in very spartan circumstances while older members are more than just comfortable raises the question of possible exploitation." he added. a native of Detroit, who said she became a member of the Unification Church in 1976 and who now lives at the church's Queens center, 37-28 88th Jackson Heights. About 700 of the letters were sent recently to Bayside homeowners and businesswomen to announce that "missionaries" of Moon would be bringing his "message.

hope and clarity of God's will and love for to the community, Welch said. Expects little response "I don't expect too much response from the letter," said Welch. "It's more important that I go and serve the community, helping out in any way I can caring for the elderly or children for example, or just cleaning streets. "As I said in my letter," she continued "we can build a better world by building a better neighborhood of love and service." Such sentiments are met with skepticism by the Rev. John Meyer, pastor of the Community Church of Douglaston where Welch started her missionary work in Queens earlier this year.

"I don't object to their stated purpose for being here, which they said is to bring people closer to God," said the Rev. Meyer. "It's the subtle deceptiveness of their message and the questionable methods they use to promulgate it that I find objectionable," the minister added. Welch and another Moonie, David Ryan, 27, took turns attending services at the Community Church and then "used our name when they went door-to-door in Douglaston trying to proselytize people," the Rev. Meyer said.

"They could accurately say they attended our church to get people to open their doors," he said. "But their attendance was only a means to their own ends." Anthony Johnson shows hisaward winning drawing entitled! "Muhammad All -and Boy, 9, whomps AH fistically, artistically By JOYCE WHITE If Anthony Johnson of Jamaica has any doubts about taking on Muhammad Ali, you would never guess it judging by. a drawing that won him top honors in-an international contest which features the works of 12,000 children. Anthony, a 9 year-old third-grader at Public School 30, 126-10 Bedell St. in Jamaica, threw out his challenge to the champ in a drawing titled "Muhammad Ali and Me," which was selected a top winner in the Ninth International Children's Art Exhibition.

Apparently it was Anthony's imagination that captured the attention of judges who viewed the 12,000 art works submitted by children aged five to 15 from 65 nations. The contest was sponsored by Pentel of America, an art supplies manufacturer, and was judged in Tokyo by a panel "composed of members of the Japanese Art Education Society, art professors and school teachers. For his work, "Muhammad Ali and Me," Anthony won the 1979 Japanese Foreign Minister's Award, which was awarded to only six entrants. Anthony was the only American to receive this tope honor. "In my picture," explained Anthony yesterday, "it shows me fighting with Muhammad Ali, and in the end I knock him out and win a million dollars." Anthony's drawing, has the oribinality, joy and innocence of life as seen through the eyes of a child, whichthe judges looked for, and shows that he has a keen eye for details, too.

His drawing features him and Ali in the ring battling it out before a crowd" at Madison Square Garden. The onlookers are rainbow-colored, who watch attentively as the young challengers and the champ go after it. The drawing is done with crayons, and shows all the imagination that a 9-year-old conjure up. There is the boxing ring with authentic looking ropes and ring posts, the boxers in action and rear exit doors for persons to make haste if they can't take the heat of the match. Anthony is more modest about his art.

he picked it up a year ago "when I was still little, in the second grade," and from time to time draws at his Jamaica home with his older brother Mark, who is 11. Anthony's drawing, which was submitted by teacher Zelda Band who uses art asa reading tool, will be among some 1,000 chosen which will go on tour I t-J Ft The Rev. Norman Edwin Thomas, newly installed as pastor of the Colonial Church of Bayside, took a more concuia-tory view of the Moonie "invasion." "No one would object to their freedom to make contact with people a3 long as they represent themselves openly and honestly for what they are," said the clergyman. 3 8 CO -i to Cites council study The Douglaston Community Church has been conducting workshops to "educate" its congregants about the Moonies, the Rev. Meyer said.

"Although the theology of the Unification Church uses Christian terminology, it is a great mixture of various religious that go outside Biblical teachings." he explained. The Rev. Meyer also cited studies by the National Council of Churches and by Congressional committees which alleged that the Unification Church recruits young people by means of "intensive indoctrination" that amounts to brainwashing. Welch denied the charge and said the Correction The address of a suspect arrested Thursday with three other persons on charges of selling illegal drugs "counterfeit" Quaalaude tablets with a street value of $750,000 was listed incorrectly by Nassau police. The correct address of suspect Marvin L.

is 1343 215th Place. -Bay side. 'Jj-.

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