How do I get emacs to indent for tab AND respect tab to demarcate paragraphs?

[russellbell]

          In emacs 24.3 and earlier, I could choose to indent for tabs
at the beginning of a line and use paragraph-indent-minor mode to make
fill respect a tab as the beginning of a paragraph (instead of
whitespace to be eliminated).  
           Beginning in 24.4 I couldn't. When package 24.3 no longer
ran with updated libraries I built my own version of 24.3. Now I can
no longer build it, so I'm trying to figure out how to make current
emacs do what I want.
        I can make emacs always-indent on startup with
tab-always-indent in .emacs, but it doesn't start in parindent mode, I
have to turn it on, which is a bore, *and* turns off tabs making
indents.
        How can I make emacs start in parindent mode and indent for
tab?