Form: S-3

Registration statement for specified transactions by certain issuers

April 21, 1995

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Published on April 21, 1995


Exhibit 24.1

Registration Statement
Limited Power of Attorney


KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned directors and
officers of Ball Corporation, an Indiana corporation, hereby constitute and
appoint R. David Hoover, Albert R. Schlesinger, and George A. Sissel, and any
one or all of them, the true and lawful agents and attorneys-in-fact of the
undersigned with full power and authority in said agents and attorneys-in-fact,
and in any one or more of them, to sign for the undersigned and in their
respective names as directors and officers of the Corporation the Form S-3
Registration Statement of the Corporation to be filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C., under the Securities Exchange Act of
1933, as amended, and to sign any amendment or amendments (including
pre-effective and post-effective amendments) to such Registration Statement, in
the matter of the Corporation's Dividend Reinvestment and Voluntary Stock
Purchase Plan for Shareholders, hereby ratifying and confirming all acts taken
by such agents and attorneys-in-fact or any one of them, as herein authorized.

Dated: April 20, 1995


/S/R. David Hoover /S/Howard M. Dean
R. David Hoover Officer Howard M. Dean Director


/S/Albert R. Schlesinger /S/John T. Hackett
Albert R. Schlesinger Officer John T. Hackett Director


/S/George A. Sissel /S/John F. Lehman
George A. Sissel Officer John F. Lehman Director


/S/Jan Nicholson
Jan Nicholson Director


/S/Alvin Owlsey
Alvin Owsley Director


/S/George A. Sissel
George A. Sissel Director


/S/Delbert C. Staley
Delbert C. Staley Director


/S/W. Thomas Stephens
W. Thomas Stephens Director


/S/William P. Stiritz
William P. Stiritz Director