August 19, 1943.

Cole Jack Ballard,

Troop G, Srd ogg Regtes
CRTC. Bldg. 2624,

Port Riley, Kansas.

Dear Jacks

I was delighted to have your good letter of August 15.
It happens that this fellow cutting the die for the basketballs,
according to Julius Marks, hasn't recovered from his shingles, or
hasn't caught up om making dies for bullets for Uncle Sem. I
called Julius Marks and he said that he would get on him again,
but I guess the die cutter thinks that it is better to cut dies
for bullets tha it is to cut dies for basketballs. Anyhow, Jack,
your name is in the pot and the ball will be forthcoming soon be-
cause we have used additional pressure to have Julius exert on the
die cutter. Of course, when government orders come they take
priority over civilian orders, and that is the cause of the delay.

Your letter was both informative and interesting and I an
going to use a lot of it in the Jayhewk Rebounds. I am going
to start on that tomorrow, I hope. st is quite a little chore and
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it on to the boya in the various camps.

Give Dick Harp my kindest regards. ‘ell him I will never
forget that long shot that he made in the Oklahoma Aggie game at
Oklahoma City - that play-off game, you know, when the score was
tied and we were playing an overtime period. Dick mde a shot
with less than a minute to go somewhere between Wichita, Kansas,
and Stillwater, and the ball game was over. Kansas represented
the Missouri Valley in the N.C.A.A. play-off. And then of cow'se
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in the Republican River flats and see mr old pal, Jack Ballard. Cone —
gratulations, Jack, on your ascendency to a corporalship. I'll bet

eld Ynole Jack really takes cara of his boys. Jegk, you will have to
get like Bo McMillin. You know, Bo says, "I sho love my boys". Mow,
Jack, Bo talks southern-like, so that will be no chore for you to say,
"I sho love my boys". Have you forgotten, Jack, how all those Yankees
on the basketball squad rode you when you started your southern drawl?
Those were grand days, weren't they, Jack? Maybe we will have some

more of them before you assume the state of married man and father.

, Bh, Jack?
roe Sincerely,

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