Aulds was a member of the Kiwanis Club, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Masonic lodge, Shriners, the Forty and Eight veterans organization, and the American Legion.
[7] In 1967, as a police juror and with extensive experience in real estate, he was a member of the site selection committee for the Northwest Louisiana School for the Mentally Retarded.
[9] Aulds left the police jury to run successfully for the state House of Representatives in the 1967–1968 election cycle, when Democrats swept the Caddo Parish offices.
Early in his first session of the legislature the freshman Aulds was named to replace veteran Representative Fulco on the House Budget Committee at the request of Governor John McKeithen.
The matter sparked discord in the Caddo Parish delegation, but McKeithen tried to smooth over the hard feelings with self-deprecating humor in an engagement in Shreveport in mid-February 1969.
[11] Katherin Aulds was a florist for twenty-five years until she became a funeral home owner after completion of the course in mortuary science at Southern University at Shreveport.