ADA News (Newspaper) - June 21, 1971, Chicago, Illinois Little Tommy Tucker Brought Disney Some Bread Would you believe that a dentist was partly responsible for the success of the late Walt Disney believe One of first productions was a dental health film made in which he was paid to A print of the film was recently donated by the ADA to the Walt Disney Tommy Tuckers a film with a few animated was filmed by Disney in Kansas in December Disney earlier that year had found ed his first but as of December only had not been paid for any of his Along came Thomas a local who asked Disney to do an educational film on dental According to Tom director of publicity at Walt Disney Disney used to tell the story that when McCrum telephoned to ask him to come to the office to draw up the Disney had to refuse because he had left his only pair of shoes to be repaired and did not have the needed to redeem McCrum came over to the paid the for then worked out the agreement to pay him for the The film deals with the home and school life of two Tommy who takes pride in himself and very good care of his and Jimmie who is careless about his ap and with his When the boys apply for a Tommy gets it because of his personal Jimmie realizes his and by tak ing care of his teeth and improving his is able to return later and obtain another Tommy Tuckers Tooth is very amateurish in comparison with Walt later but was a milestone in his ca for it helped get his little company Great strides were made by the young film maker in the six years between this film and the appearance of Mickey Mouse in After moving to Disney made a second film for McCrum called Clara Cleans Her American Dental Association News 1971 DENTIST GETS ADA POST IN WASHINGTON a will join the staff of the Ameri can Dental Association as a legislative assistant in the Washington Office on a June 1968 graduate of Ohio State University College of Den has been in private practice in for the past He has also been a clinical instructor in the department of basic technique and den tal materials at the Georgetown Univer sity School of Dentistry since Septem The 28yearold Cleveland native General Shira To Leave Become Dental Dean at Tufts EBERSOLD holds dental licenses in and the District of He is an active member of the District of Colum bia Dental Ebersold served as a captain in the Air Force from 1968 to 1970 and is now a reserve He served as of Xi Psi Phi national dental fraternity in his last year of dental Ebersold is married and has a 2 He is the second person to be added to the Washington Office staff this Gen Robert assistant surgeon general and chief of the Army Dental will re place Louis Calisti as dean of Tufts School of Dental one of the nations most prominent leaders in oral will Service Needs Are Met By 71 Volunteers There will be no dentist draft at all in according to Col Jack special assistant for dental affairs in the Department of In a statement to the ADA Col Pollock gave two reasons for the cancel lation there was a reduction in den tal officers required for the armed the subsequent needs have been filled through the volunteers from the 1971 graduating The original draft call for 536 dentists issued in February was canceled in April after the American Dental Associa tion conferred with officials of the Selec tive Service System and the Many dentists who had just set up prac tice were going to be The ADAs position was that the need for dentists could be met with teers from the 1971 graduating classes if the draft were The Selective had it not filled its quota with volunteers by this would have had to issue a new draft assume the position in December after completing a 33year service Calisti will leave the post next month to become president of the University of Maines He was dean for seven a 1932 graduate of Kansas City Western Dental College and a na tive of practiced general dentistry for six years before joining the Army Dental As chief of oral surgery at Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco from 1947 through 1954 he established the Army Dental Intern Training Program and the Army Residency Training Pro gram in Oral From 1954 to 1964 he was chief of ROBERT SHIRA dental service at Walter Reed Army Medical As dental surgeon for the Armys Eu ropean command in Germany from 1964 to he was responsible for the operation of 125 dental dental services of 19 and the dental section of a large medical served one year as director of den tal activities at Walter Reed before be ing promoted to his present position in Shira is also editor of Oral Sur Oral Medicine and Oral gy Jimmie Jones throws down his toothbrush its just too much trouble The result is a terrible These bacteria caused In a job Tommy Tucker wins out be cause his clean teeth show he has pride in him Jimmie after establishing proper den tal care and also gets a