DAVE HOLLOWAY--ON BOARD WITH THE BOYCOTT!

MERIDIAN, Miss. - The father of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway would like Mississippi to join a travel boycott of Aruba to protest the way officials there have handled the disappearance of his daughter.

Dave Holloway, a Meridian insurance agent, said he has called the governor's office to urge Gov. Haley Barbour to join Alabama Gov. Bob Riley and Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in the travel boycott of the Dutch Caribbean island. "I called the governor while he was out of town because I would like to just get his position on it," Holloway told The Meridian Star. "But I haven't heard back from him."

Holloway said residents of Mississippi can boycott Aruba without the governor's urging, but he would like to see Barbour support the effort. Pete Smith, a spokesman for Barbour, said Tuesday the governor has not had time to consider the boycott. "He's just gotten back from Iraq and he is focusing on federal aid for Hurricane Katrina victims and he has not had a chance to think about it. But he will take a look at it," Smith said.

Riley has said he is concerned because the Aruban investigation has produced no results in the case of Holloway, who was 18 when she disappeared during a high school graduation trip to the island May 30. Riley said and he is not convinced everything possible is being done.

Last month, he asked other governors to urge their citizens not to vacation in Aruba. Huckabee joined the boycott last month, but he is the only other governor so far to do so. Huckabee said Beth Holloway Twitty, Holloway's mother, is originally from Arkansas and that many of the missing teen's other relatives still live in the state. Natalee Holloway is a Clinton, Miss., native. A graduate of Mountain Brook High School in suburban Birmingham, Ala., she was last seen leaving a bar with three young men from Aruba. Each of the three was taken into custody but has since been released.