SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                                
                     Washington, D.C.  20549
                                
                            FORM 8-K
                                
                         CURRENT REPORT
                                
             Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
                 Securities Exchange Act of 1934
                                
                                
  Date of Report (Date earliest event reported) August 22, 1996
                                
                                
Commission   Registrant, State of Incorporation,     I.R.S.
File Number  Address and Telephone Number            Employer
                                                     Identification No.

1-11299      ENTERGY CORPORATION                     72-1229752
             (a Delaware corporation)
             639 Loyola Avenue
             New Orleans, Louisiana  70113
             Telephone (504) 529-5262
             
0-320        ENTERGY MISSISSIPPI, INC.               64-0205830
             (a Mississippi corporation)
             308 East Pearl Street
             Jackson, Mississippi  39201
             Telephone (601) 368-5000
             
                                
                                
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Item 5.   Other Information

          Entergy Corporation and Entergy Mississippi, Inc.


     The Mississippi Public Service Commission (MPSC), on August

22, 1996, issued an order establishing a generic docket to

consider all aspects of competition in the provision of retail

electric service.  In issuing its order, the MPSC stated that if,

after completing the docket, it determines that competition in

the provision of retail electric service is in the public

interest, it may seek enabling legislation to allow competitive

retail electric service in Mississippi.

     The MPSC also issued an order approving Entergy Mississippi,

Inc.'s request that the rate rider it filed on August 2, 1996 be

remanded to the file. That rider was designed to prevent cost

shifting from one class of customers to another. Entergy

Mississippi, Inc. requested the MPSC to order the remand because

the generic docket will address retail competition issues that

are associated with and included in Entergy Mississippi, Inc.'s

August 2 filing.  Entergy Mississippi, Inc.'s August 2 filing

will be held in abeyance pending the outcome of the MPSC's

generic docket.

     Entergy Mississippi, Inc., is a wholly-owned electric

utility subsidiary of Entergy Corporation.





Form 8-K                                                   Page 2
August 28, 1996

                                                                 
                                
                            SIGNATURE
                                
                                
          Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange
Act 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed
on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

                                 Entergy Corporation
                                 
                                 By: /s/Louis E. Buck, Jr.
                                        Louis E. Buck, Jr.
                                     Vice President and Chief
                                        Accounting Officer
                                 

                                 Entergy Mississippi, Inc.
                                 
                                 By: /s/Louis E. Buck, Jr.
                                        Louis E. Buck, Jr.
                                     Vice President and Chief
                                        Accounting Officer
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                                 
Dated:  August 28, 1996