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, his 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 1997 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 21st
day of January, 1998.


                               Lawrence B. Connors
                               Controller






Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of January, 1998.

                                  Judy A. Hall
                                  Notary Public

My Commission Expires:

July 20, 1999