Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, April 16, 1991                   TAG: 9104160254
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PEOPLE

Kelley told Newsweek magazine that she received telephone messages from a "minor hood" warning her to "please be careful. There is a hit on you."

"I've lived with this before, with the Sinatra book," said Kelley, who wrote an unauthorized biography of singer Frank Sinatra published in 1986.

However, she said, "I'm not going to hide anymore. I said from the beginning that this was the toughest book I ever wrote."

Waylon Jennings admits that studying for hours on the road so he could pass his high school equivalency exam did nothing to boost his career.

But he says he couldn't preach the importance of education to his 11-year-old son unless he had a diploma himself.

Jennings, who passed the General Education Development test in December 1989 at age 52, spoke Sunday at a banquet that kicked off a three-day conference sponsored by the National Drop-Out Prevention Center at Clemson University.

"I wanted him to know how important it was to me," he said of his son, Shooter. "If he doesn't have an education today, he doesn't have a chance. When you quit school, you limit yourself the rest of your life.

Ricky Skaggs will be featured at an upcoming Oakland County, Mich., schools benefit that replaces the usual bake sales and raffles.

"We did the normal small fund-raising activities and came to the conclusion that you really can't function very well if you don't have much cash," said William Bliesath, chairman of the May 18 event at the Palace of Auburn Hills.

The appearance by Skaggs, whose hit records include "Country Boy" and "Lovin' Only Me," is expected to raise up to $150,000 for art and science projects at schools in five county districts.

It's a boy for actor James Caan and his wife, Ingrid.

Alexander James Caan was born Wednesday at UCLA Medical Center, the actor's publicist, Paul Bloch, said Monday. The baby weighed 7 pounds, 10 ounces and measured 21 1/2 inches long.

"The baby and mother are terrific and in excellent health. Of course, the father is ecstatic," Bloch said.

It was the first child for Caan, 50, and Ingrid, 30, who were married last September.