Many searches have been made in the last few years for 21 cm emission from neutral hydrogen in elliptical galaxies. Emission has been detected in several galaxies, which have 108 to 109 M⊙ of HI (for H○ = 100 km s−1Mpc−1). Upper limits between 106 and 109 M⊙ have been set for the HI mass in about 40 other galaxies. Why most E galaxies have so little gas, and why some few have detectable gas, remains a matter of great interest. Two of the galaxies with large HI mass, NGC 1052 and 4278, are known to have powerful nuclear continuum radio sources (P2380 ∼ 1022 WHz−1). Since both of these attributes are fairly rare among elliptical galaxies, their coexistence in these galaxies is not likely to have occurred by chance. We have therefore observed twelve other elliptical galaxies with nuclear radio power P2380 > 1022 WHz−1 at Arecibo Observatory, to determine whether a large mass of HI is a necessary auxillary to nuclear continuum emission.