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Show TIE-IN SALES BY LIQUOR COMMISSION BANNED The Office of Price Administration Adminis-tration has notified the Utah State Liquor Control commission to desist from making combination combina-tion or "tie-in" sales of whiskey or rum, Francis J. Quinn, chairman chair-man of the Bingham Canyon war price and rationing board announced an-nounced today. "With a few exceptions, the sale of articles throigh tying in sales is prohibited by the OPA", the chairman said. "In the opinion opin-ion of the OPA the liquor commission com-mission is not authorized to move their surplus stocks of rum at the ceiling price by tying it to a readily saleable article such as pints of whiskey. Failure to comply com-ply to the OPA's request may result in court action." According to the OPA, combination com-bination or tying-in sales are forbidden for-bidden with the exception of such articles as jewelry, for example, ex-ample, which is often sold in sets and breaking the sets would result re-sult in a severe loss to the merchant. mer-chant. Further information on tying-in sales may be obtained from the local war price and rationing ra-tioning board. i |