Exhibit 24 (a) 3
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                      POWER OF ATTORNEY


      The  undersigned, as Controller of Central  and  South
West   Corporation   (the  "Corporation"),   hereby   makes,
constitutes  and  appoints E. R. Brooks and Glenn  Rosilier,
and each of them severally, her true and lawful attorneys-in-
fact  and agents, each with full power and authority (acting
alone  and without the other) to execute in the name and  on
behalf  of  the undersigned, in any and all capacities,  the
Corporation's Annual Report on Form 10-K for  1994  and  any
and all amendments thereto, to be filed under the Securities
Exchange  Act  of 1934, as amended, and any other  documents
and  instruments incidental thereto, and to file  the  same,
with  all  exhibits thereto and all documents in  connection
therewith,  with  the  Securities and  Exchange  Commission,
hereby  granting to such attorneys-in-fact, and  agents,  and
each  of them, full power and authority of substitution  and
revocation  in the premises and full power and authority  to
do  and  perform each and every act and thing requisite  and
necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully for
all  intents and purposes as the undersigned might or  could
do  in  person and hereby ratifying and confirming all  that
such  attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do  or
cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto executed this Power
of Attorney this 16th day of January, 1995.



                              Wendy G. Hargus
                              Controller






      Subscribed  and sworn to before me this  16th  day  of
January, 1995 by Wendy G. Hargus.

                              Frederic L. Frawley
                              Notary Public

My Commission Expires:
December 3, 1998