UNITED STATES
			 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
			      Washington, D.C.  20549
			  FORM U-12(I)-B (ANNUAL STATEMENT)
				 Calendar Year 1998

STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(I) OF PUBLIC UTILITY HOLDING COMPANY ACT OF 
1935 BY A PERSON REGULARLY EMPLOYED OR RETAINED BY A REGISTERED HOLDING 
COMPANY OR A SUBSIDIARY THEREOF AND WHOSE EMPLOYMENT CONTEMPLATES ONLY 
ROUTINE EXPENSES AS SPECIFIED IN RULE U-71(b)
(To be filed in DUPLICATE.  If acknowledgment is desired, file in triplicate.)

1.      Name and business address of person filing statement.

	R. Drake Keith
	P.O. Box 551
	Little Rock, AR  72203


2.      Names and business addresses of any persons through whom the 
	undersigned proposes to act in matters included within the exemption 
	provided by paragraph (b) of Rule U-71.

	None


3.      Registered holding companies and subsidiary companies by which the 
	undersigned is regularly employed or retained.

	Entergy Arkansas, Inc.


4.      Position or relationship in which the undersigned is employed or 
	retained by each of the companies named in Item 3,   and brief 
	description of nature of services to be rendered in each such 
	position or relationship.
	
	As Director and President of Entergy Arkansas, Inc., the duties of the 
	undersigned may include, from time to time, presenting, advocating or  
	opposing matters affecting Entergy Corporation and its subsidiary 
	companies before Congress and members and committees thereof, and 
	before this Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and
	members, officers and employees of such Commissions.

	The services required to be described in this form under Section 12(i) 
	of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 are incidental to the
	undersigned's primary and principal duties and, although such services 
	vary in extent from time to time, they represent overall only a 
	comparatively minor portion of the total services rendered.


5(a)    Compensation received during the prior year and to be received during  
	the calendar year by the undersigned or others, directly or indirectly,
	for services rendered by the undersigned, from each of  the companies 
	designated in Item 3. (Use column (a) as supplementary statement only.)




				 Salary or other compensation

Name of Recipient       During Prior Year(a)     To be received(b)        Person or company from whom 
									  received or to be received
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R. Drake Keith          $28,000                  $28,000                  Entergy Arkansas, Inc.





5(b)    Basis for compensation if other than salary.


6.      (To be answered in supplementary statement only.  See instructions.)  
	Expenses incurred by the undersigned or any person named in Item 2, 
	above, during the calendar year in connection with the activities 
	described in Item 4, above, and the source or sources of reimbursement 
	for same.    
	
	   (a) Total amount of routine expenses charged to client: $3,000.00
	   
	   (b) Itemized list of all other expenses:  No other expenses.



In accordance with the provisions of subdivision (c) of Rule U-71, the 
undersigned files this statement as a combined renewal of the advance 
statement filed by the undersigned January 1997 and as a supplemental 
statement to such advance statement.


 /s/ R. Drake Keith                    Dated: January 23, 1998
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