EXHIBIT 24.3
                      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 D. Rosilier, and each of
them  severally,  her  true and lawful attorney-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  1995  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 attorney-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  attorney-in-fact and agent, 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 18th day of January, 1996.


                              Wendy G. Hargus
                              Controller






Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of  January,
1996.

                              Frederic L. Frawley
                              Notary Public

My Commission Expires:
December 3, 1998