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I 0 FV on Jamaica ve once me SANTA IS FLYING TO KQRVETTES! By BERNARD RABIN For the first time in more than 60 years, the Jamaica business section from Sutphin Blvd. to 168th St is seeinthe light as the dismantling of the rickety old elevator transit line along Jamaica Ave. nears its end. "It sure is nice to see direct sunlight rather than the. light filtering through the tracks," said and official of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, which spent more than a decade agitating for removal of the elevated.

"It's also nice not to hear the clickety-clack and rumble of the trains passing overhead every few.minuzes while we are trying to teach a class," said an instructor at York College at 150-14 Jamaica Ave. Rochdale sets new directors Two former members of the Rochdale Village board of directors won new terms yesterday in the Jamaica housing cooperative's annual election, Arthur Greene and Frank McKanic, representing the United Shareholders, led the slate of win- ners- with 1.267 and 1,254 votes res- spectively. Their victory gives the i group seven of the 15 members on the board of the" financially troubled development winners were incumbents Joyce Baylen, Ray Johnson and Alfred Mossman, who represent the Concerned Cooperators. Greene and McKanie campaigned on a program of obtaining greater security for residents and merchants of the Mitchell-Lama housing complex, and an improve- i ment in other services. They said they would ask state housing officials to pick up the tab for increasing security services.

ed to be in operation late in 1984 or early in 1985. When the new Archer Ave. Subway opens, as well as the Van Wyck Express way connection to the IND line on Queens there will be further removal of the Jamaica Ave. el starting from 127th St The removal of the elevated transit line as an obstruction in the heart of the Jamaica shopping district has brought joy to local merchants, who feel it will signal the revival of the area, which originally was built by the existence of the transit line. They are also impatiently awaiting the completion next Friday of the 165th St.

MalL Some merchants along the line of the job have complained over the work's slow progress. Many delays were caused by construction union strikes several months ago. Scheduled at night An inspection of $927,000 demoli-tion project yesterday showed that virtually all the overhead roadbed is down except for two very small sections at 155th St. and 160th St. In addition, a considerable number of upright steel girders, on which the roadbed rested, are still in place at the curb lines, but more are being removed every night.

The work is being carried out at night by the Wrecking Corp. of America of Ohio, which was low bilder on thm project. The work was purposely scheduled at night so as not to interfere with either shopping in the business district or with traffic, especially during the Christmas sopping season. Although the major demolition of the train structure is almost completed, reconstruction work along Jamaica Ave. will continue into the late next summer of early fall.

It will include the repositioning of overhead utility lines yl and street traffic lights. To make up for passengers no longer being able to go to the stations at 168th Parsons and Sutphin the Transit Authority has been operating linited-stop shuttle buses along Jamaica Ave. They start at the new terminus of the elevated line on Queens and run east to 168th St. They'll take more away The shuttle will continue to run, according to Transit Authority officials, until completion of the Southeast Jamaica Subway Line, which is being built under Archer one block south of Jamaica Ave. The new subway is expect- BULLETIN BOARD (Sfcoars food) an services COMPILED BY BERNARD RABIN Santa Claus will arrive by helicopter on Friday, November 2C at 12 noon in the parking lot of our Douglaston store.

Douglaston Parltway off Long Island Expressway. FREE LOLLIPOPS AND BALLOONS FOR THE KIDDIES! Come Join the fun! OFFICERS' RECEPTION Wave- crest Lodge No. 615, Knights of Pythias, will hold its annual officers' reception in the Bayswater Jewish Center, Far Roekaway, on Jan. 13. There will.be a $25 per couple charge.

SANTUCCI SPEAKS Queens District Attorney John Santucci will give the keynote address Jan. 13 at a lunch eon of the St John's University Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa at the University Center on the Flushing-Hillcrest cam pus. COLLEGE CHORUS The Queens College Clrorus under the direction of Robert White will present a concert at p.m. on Dec. 19 in the Colden Auditori.

urn of the college, Long Island Expressway and Kissena Flushing. The concert is free and open to the public. i NEW YEAR The Sisterhood and Men's Club of the Bayswater Jewish Center, 23-58 Healy Far Roekaway. will celebrate the new year with a party in the center at 9:30 p.m. on Dec.

31. There will be a charge of 927 per pep. son. PUPPET SHOW A holiday puppet show will be sponsored by the YM VWHA of Greater Flushing at 1 p.m. on Dec.

28 In the center at 45-35 Kissena lis vtv.z 5 i Grace Lutheran Church at Springfield Blvd. and 102d Queens Village, will celebrate Thanksgiving with worship services at 8:15 a.m. and 10 a.m. today. The senior choir of the church will sing at the early service, while the youth choir will participate in the later service.

Both choirs are directed by Don Freudenberg. THRIFT SHOP The Ridge Heights Chapter of Hadassah is sponsoring a Thrift Shop at 36-66 85th St, Jackson Heights. It is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday through Friday and is closed on Saturday.

VETS BALL The Queens County Council VFW, will hold its annual ball Feb. 2 at a place and time to be announced. A planning group headed by Ernest Thomson and Mary Ann Rupp will meet on Jan. 9 in Ridgewood Post 123, Catalpa Ridgewood, to discuss plans for the event ANNUAL DANCE The Bellairt Civic Association of Queens Village will hold its annual dance Feb. 3 in St.

Ann's Knights of Columbus Hall, 218-38 98th Avii, Queens Village. There will be' a $5 per person charge. r..