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DALLAS (AP) — In three years,
Mike Mullen has sold more than 125
oil rigs.
The three years weren’t the go-go
years of the late 1970s and early
1980s. He’s done it since 1985 —
during three of the most pathetic
years the domestic oil and gas dril
ling equipment industry has ever
seen.
\ Mullen got into the oil business in
1975 and has been able to stay in it
[ever since — continuing to make
money in the up and down cycles
that his career has overlapped.
It could be said Mullen has good
timing: Many still remember the
Dallas native as a linebacker for St.
Mark’s School of Texas and later as
an All-America at Tulane Univei-
sity. In 1973, he was drafted by the
Miami Dolphins — 2md in his 1974
rookie season played with the Dol
phins as they beat the Minnesota Vi
kings for their second consecutive
Super Bowl championship.
“I had an opportunity to jump to
the rival World Football League for
a lot more money and what I
thought was more job security,”
Mullen said from his office in subur
ban Highland Park. “The league
cratered. I became aware of how
unstable that type of profession can
be.”
And so he moved back to Dallas,
ending his short-but-sweet football
career, and launched another risky
career — in the oil business.
But Mullen has learned to work
the industry’s downside to his advan
tage.
He started his second career with
Sedco International, going to work
in Iran and the North Sea. He re
turned to the United States in 1979
as the last domestic oil boom was tak
ing off and operated a drilling com
pany in five Southeastern states out
ofNatchez, Miss.
of oil-related assets and to help re
structure loans to contract drillers.
In two years, Mullen managed $480
million in drilling equipment that
the bank had taken back through
foreclosure and lay dormant in three
equipment yards.
In 1985, Mullen said he saw an
opportunity to start his own com
pany — “which was to buy assets
from banks at distressed values with
the intent of marketing them at a
later date.”
With a pool of investors he
founded Dallas-based Energy Equip
ment Resource Inc. and became the
managing partner of a multimillion-
dollar venture capital fund that
speculates in oil rigs.
Since its inception, gross sales
have exceeded $12 million. This
year, Mullen’s company has had
sales of $4.6 million.
Reign over UIL
could be tightened
In 1983, as the industry was work
ing its way out of the 1982 decline in
oil prices, Mullen was hired by Dal-
Has-based InterFirst Bank for a first-
of-its-kind job. InterFirst hired the
drilling contractor to be its manager
AUSTIN (AP) — The Sunset Ad
visory Commission adopted propo
sals Thursday that supporters said
would tighten state control over the
University Interscholastic League,
which was created 75 years ago and
governs athletics and other extracur
ricular activities in all Texas public
schools.
Although proposals by the citizen-
legislator commission must be ap
proved by the Legislature to become
effective, its recommendations often
trigger changes by organizations it
reviews periodically.
On Thursday, three Sunset mem
bers — including two Mexican-
American legislators — indicated
that they object to the absence of
women and minorities in the UIL’s
decision-making process.
The proposal by Jane Hickie
would require the State Board of Ed
ucation to review all rules governing
extracurricular activities, not just
changes proposed by the UIL. The
board has had review authority since
1984, but rules in place at that time
were approved without an indepth
review, according to the Sunset staff
analysis.
A fund would be established in
the state treasury for the UIL, with
school membership fees being de
posited in the fund. The Legislature
would appropriate money from the
fund to cover UIL administrative ex
penses.
A fund outside the state treasury
would be set up to collect contest
fees and gate receipts, with a portion
of the money paying for competi
tions and other amounts being re
bated to the schools.
Currently, UIL membership and
miscellaneous fees are deposited in
an account administered by the Uni
versity of Texas.
Sunset director Bill Wells noted
that the proposal would move the
UIL into the appropriation process
for the first time.
Hickie said her proposal does not
guarantee that women and minori
ties would be included on the UIL’s
policy-making bodies, but the vote
appeared to be a signal that that was
its intention.
“It would allow the State Board of
Education to structure the represen
tation to reflect” the student popula
tion, Hickie said.
Rep. Lena Guerrero, D-Austin,
said, “I’m concerned that if it was
left up to the UIL, it would never
change the structure. We intend to
change the structure and gain some
state control.
“Funding (control) would be our
ultimate opportunity.”
Throttle switch failure
blamed for Delta crash
IRVING (AP) — A switch for a
system that would have warned the
pilots of Delta Air Lines Flight 1141
that the jet’s wing flaps were im
properly set for takeoff had cor
roded, a veteran engineer told fed
eral investigators Thursday.
But engineer Donald R. Ryder
told the National Transportation
Safety Board that the FI97 throttle
I switch subsequently passed engi
neering pnd circuitry tests after it
was taken from the plane that
crashed Aug. 31 at Dallas-Fort
Worth International Airport, killing
14 of the 108 people aboard.
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lift
extra lift during the slow speeds of
takeoff and landing, have been a fo
cus of the federal investigators.
The flaps were found in the incor
rect position after the crash, but it is
not known whether they were set
that way or whether they were out of
position because of the impact or by
mechanical failure.
An exhibit by the NTSB indicated
i “the switch exhibited blue-green cor
rosion-type substance around the
normally open terminals on the ex
terior of the housing.” The exhibit
also said the plunger hole on the
switch was enlarged.
The Air Line Pilots Association
said before the public hearing began
Tuesday that its experts believed the
plane’s takeoff warning system was
inoperative and that the pilots had
no idea that the plane’s flaps were
improperly set — some up, some
down.
Ryder said the switch worked per
fectly in tests of circuitry designed to
resemble that of the plane.
But upon questioning, Ryder said
the same switch had not worked in
other tests by an NTSB investigator.
During his test, Ryder said, the
button and the plunger of the switch
slipped by each other, meaning they
didn’t make contact. He blamed the
failure on “mismanipulation,” saying
the installation was different from
wha one would find on a 727.
Ryder said any problems with in
operative switches should be found
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during routine maintenance and
that the switches are virtually self
cleaning, brushing the contacts clean
with each use.
Witness Robert E. North of Pratt
& Whitney said his company’s three
engines mounted on Delta Flight
1141 showed no sign of damage that
might have occurred before the
crash. The third engine showed ma
jor interior damage^ but North said
he believed the evidence indicated
the damage must have occurred af
ter the crash.
On Wednesday, a Boeing aerody
namics supervisor testified that the
plane was traveling fast enough to
fly even if its flaps had been re
tracted.
Investigators have been puzzled
by the fact the plane’s flap handle
was found up, the retracted position,
although some of the plane’s flaps
and slats were extended.
NTSB officials say the healing is
only for fact-gathering and that no
conclusions will be released until a
report is made public in six months.
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