The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 29, 1954, Page 5

, i i ved Chinese POW On Formosa Tells Story | ot Recent Release From Allied Captivity in western China can | WASHINGTON — They found his father’s meager'not changed since you paid your'gissbility benefit . Changed Rules Can Save Money The law has across his slender,|stock of cloth. He had hidden it jast income tax. But the Revenue of all hejto avoid its certain confiscation. 'Serviee has made some changes brutality. : “That's have no fear for giving it. address—20 Nan Chu Men,|of 14 at the time. His family was trom income. Some policies pay are no longer am not callous,” he went on. The Communists took his father,/in interpretation some of which his mother and his sister, 12, away might save you money. Among the to a “people’s court.” Ling Yuan more important are: |spat out the phrase “people’s! 1 Premiums for health insur- jcourt.”” . jance which does not pay for medi- Ling Yuan was a married man cal expenses cannot be deducted ‘old-fashioned and insisted on early for lost time from work but not marriages. He and his young wife for doctors, hospitals and medi- That Income Tax Deadline Is On The Way! became insurance if they met state “clear and convincing reasons.” requirements. These re cagpacevom the busi- ‘ ig BESS, WO! a ma more or ‘This is no longer the case and if) hours and similar circum- you got benefits that do not come stances, Business men have, in the undre an insurance plan, YOu muSt past, protested that one revenue jpay incume taxes on them. agent would approve a schedule | 3. Cost-of-living allowances for'and another agent might come U. S. employes in territories and along and change it because he had possessions of the United States different ideas. considered income. 5, Business men can pay excise \If you are one of the 30,000 people taxes quarterly instead of monthly lwho get them, you do not even under a ruling by Commissioner It’s only that my family are past |were in the country with his wife’s «ine You still can deduct prem-|have to report such money. And if of Internal Revenue T. Coleman reprisals.” His father had been a cloth parents when the dread news|; most health insurance as came: all three sentenced to death| Sodical expense. endor by day and a tailor at/and shot. by ‘Bight. Then inte in 1949} Ling. Yuan changed his name and 2. Some health benefit payments must be added to income. When|( mmunists came to CHung-|fled Szechwan province, but the your employer pays you benefits |15, you are an old ; 3 can Andrews, { make tax claims for what you paid 6. 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Then, just! before his 16th birthday. came the chance to desert. His outfit was near Chorwon on the Central Front the night he and a friend found themselves cut off from their company. | He said they smashed their weapons and kept walking south juntil they reached the motor pool of the U.S. 24th Division. There they surrendered, From the front, Ling Yuan was shuttled southward to the southeast Port of Pusan. Late in 1951, he was transferred to the smouldering prison island of Koje. | Inside the barbed wire com- pounds, he found the civil war between Nationalists and Commu- nists still raged. He did not talk about those days, jwhen the two factions fought for control and blood ran in the com- pounds. But he said he was one of the internal guards appointed by the |anti-Red prisoners themselves. their screening to see who wanted to go back to Red China in event of an armistice. They asked Ling Yuan if he wanted to go hack. “The very thought made my blood curdle,” he said. “All I could do was say over and over! again, ‘Even if you kill me I will not return to Communist China.’” And so he was moved from Koje to Cheju Island with other non- Communist prisoners, . On Sept. 18, he arrived at the through a “plan of insurance,” that is not income. But it is not a “plan of insurance” if the em- through an insurance company. It used to be that benefit plans Tt was in 1626 when the Pil- grims of the Plymouth Colony Tecognized the basic principle of benefits for men who fought for their country, according to a state- ment this week by Charles W. Ma- chin, Commander of the Key West Post No. 3911, V. F. S., as his or- ganization joined in a celebration of National V. F. W. 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