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):  October 11, 1996
                                
                                
Commission   Registrant, State of Incorporation,     I.R.S.
File Number  Address and Telephone Number            Employer
                                                     Identifica
                                                     tion No.
1-11299      ENTERGY CORPORATION                     72-1229752
             (a Delaware corporation)
             639 Loyola Avenue
             New Orleans, Louisiana  70113
             Telephone (504) 529-5262
             
                                                     
                                
                                
Form 8-K                                                   Page 1
October 11, 1996



Item 5.   Other Information

          Entergy Corporation
          The following press release was released on October 11,
          1996

      LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas -- Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR), a
major  electric energy and diversified growth company,  announced
that  it  completed its planned acquisition of National  Security
Service (NSS) on October 3, 1996 for $32 million of debt.

      Entergy  said its purchase of NSS, a full-service  security
monitoring  company  serving  about  40,000  customers  in  North
Carolina  and  Alabama with about $23 million in annual  revenue,
gives it an industry stake from which it plans to grow.

      Entergy, which has 2.4 million retail electric customers in
Arkansas,  Louisiana,  Mississippi, and  Texas,  and  an  energy-
management subsidiary serving commercial and industrial customers
from  offices in 29 U.S. states, said it will expand its security
business   through   increased   customer   sales   and    future
acquisitions.  NSS is headquartered in Raleigh and has offices in
Hickory,  Charlotte, Wilmington, Rocky Mount,  Fayetteville,  and
Greensboro,  N.C.  Alabama customers are served  from  Birmingham
and Montgomery offices by NSS' Automatic Detection Systems, Inc.

Form 8-K                                                   Page 2
October 11, 1996




                                
                            SIGNATURE
                                
                                
          Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange
Act  of  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
                                 
                                                 
Dated:  October 11, 1996