Form: S-8

Initial registration statement for securities to be offered to employees pursuant to employee benefit plans

August 5, 1999

POWERS OF ATTORNEY

Published on August 5, 1999




Exhibit 25.1
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 S-8
Registration Statement of the Corporation to be filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C., under the Securities Exchange Act of
1993, as amended, and to sign any amendment or amendments (including
pre-effective and post-effective amendments) to such S-8 Registration Statement
in the matter of the Ball Corporation Common Stock Fund offered pursuant to the
Ball Corporation Salary Conversion and Employee Stock Ownership Plan, hereby
ratifying and confirming all acts taken by such agents and attorneys-in-fact or
any one of them, as herein authorized.

Dated: July 28, 1999


/s/ R. David Hoover /s/ Frank A. Bracken
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R. David Hoover Officer Frank A. Bracken Director

/s/ Albert R. Schlesinger /s/ Howard M. Dean
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Albert R. Schlesinger Officer Howard M. Dean Director

/s/ George A. Sissel /s/ John T. Hackett
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George A. Sissel Officer John T. Hackett Director

/s/ R. David Hoover
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R. David Hoover Director

/s/ John F. Lehman
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John F. Lehman Director

/s/ Ruel C. Mercure, Jr.
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Ruel C. Mercure, Jr. Director

/s/ Jan Nicholson
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Jan Nicholson Director

/s/ George A. Sissel
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George A. Sissel Director

/s/ William P. Stiritz
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William P. Stiritz Director

/s/ Stuart A. Taylor II
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Stuart A. Taylor II Director